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From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@bononia.it>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamllex -- ungetting a character?
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:12:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060716081203.GA25792@aquarium.takhisis.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B9B93F.4010309@cs.caltech.edu>

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:57:51PM -0700, mvanier wrote:
> I'm writing a simple program using ocamllex to do some text processing, and 
> one feature I would really like is to be able to put a matched character 
> back onto the front of the lexing buffer.  I can't figure out a way to do 
> this from the documentation (if it's possible, it's not in the manual).  
> Does anyone know of a way to do this?

I don't think it is possible with ocamllex. Using ulex however you can
put back all the characters corresponding to the last matched lexeme
with Ulexing.rollback.

Cheers.

-- 
Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy
zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/
If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity
of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!-


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-16  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-16  3:57 mvanier
2006-07-16  8:12 ` Stefano Zacchiroli [this message]
2006-07-18  9:28   ` [Caml-list] " Jean-Christophe Filliatre

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