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From: Matt Gushee <matt@gushee.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Another problem (was Re: [Caml-list] Ocamllex question)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:50:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435D3B09.3030108@gushee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510232337.59207.micha-1@fantasymail.de>

Michael Wohlwend wrote:

>>Not essential, but it would be nice to allow escaped quotes within such
>>strings:

> you write a extra lexer-rule which gets called when a " is seen; in this rule 
> you read single chars and append them to a string buffer. If you see a 
> backslash you handle the next character special; example:
> ....

Thank you! That was just the sort of example I needed ... and I
understand ocamllex a little better now.

Maybe you should post something like this on the Web. There's not much
in the way of practical examples for ocamllex.

--
Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-24 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-23 18:02 Ocamllex question Matt Gushee
2005-10-23 20:58 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Wohlwend
2005-10-23 21:12 ` Another problem (was Re: [Caml-list] Ocamllex question) Matt Gushee
2005-10-23 21:37   ` Michael Wohlwend
2005-10-24 19:50     ` Matt Gushee [this message]
2005-10-24 20:18       ` Michael Wohlwend

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