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From: vern%lbl-pistachio@LBL-RTSG.ARPA (Vern Paxson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: flex bug with |'d patterns and $.
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Date: 22 May 88 23:44:06 GMT
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Greg Lee writes about flex mismatches regarding connecting multiple
rules with "|" when one of the rules includes the match-end-of-line
"$" meta-character.  This is indeed a bug and is documented as such
in the flex manual entry ("$" is an instance of trailing context).
I'm hoping to have all trailing context restrictions removed with
the next flex release.

		Vern

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