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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Lex/Yacc question
To: julianj@cse.unsw.edu.au (Julian Lawrence Jenkins)
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:24:41 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961129105557.8676E-100000@faure.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU> from "Julian Lawrence Jenkins" at Nov 29, 96 10:58:32 am
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> > 	KEYWORD rest of stuff to end of line
> 
> Try:
> 
> > %s HELO
> >
> > %%
> >
> > helo		BEGIN HELO;
> > <HELO>.*\n		{BEGIN INITIAL; printf("\n\n%s\n\n", yytext);}
> 
> This works in flex, dont know about other lexes.
> 
> It defines a state and will only recognise lines preceded with <state>
> when in that state.

Thanks; this is the tersest example yet.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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