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From: vern%lbl-pistachio@LBL-RTSG.ARPA (Vern Paxson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: flex escape sequences
Message-ID: <8805052140.AA01897@lbl-pistachio>
Date: 5 May 88 21:40:10 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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Greg Lee mentioned a bug regarding "\^" not correctly matching a caret
in the input.  This is due to a throw-back to the dark ages, and the
fix follows.

		Vern


RCS/scan.l,v  -->  stdout
revision 1.3 
*** scan.l      Thu May  5 14:32:53 1988
--- /tmp/da1563 Thu May  5 14:36:11 1988
***************
*** 48,54 ****
  
  SCNAME                {NAME}
  
! ESCSEQ                \\([^\n]|0[0-9]{1,3})
  
  %%
      static int bracelevel, didadef;
--- 48,54 ----
  
  SCNAME                {NAME}
  
! ESCSEQ                \\([^^\n]|"^".|0[0-9]{1,3})
  
  %%
      static int bracelevel, didadef;