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- From: al@nmt.edu (Al Stavely)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: Re: Possible lex bug?
- Keywords: lex, errors, comment
- Message-ID: <92-09-034@comp.compilers>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 16:53:31 GMT
- References: <92-09-025@comp.compilers>
- Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Reply-To: al@nmt.edu (Al Stavely)
- Organization: New Mexico Tech, USA
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- masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
- >Has anyone else come across the following possible bug in lex?
- >[lex doesn't recognize \v as vertical tab]
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- "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" :-(
-
- According to my Lex manual, the only special-character escape sequences
- (besides octal codes) that Lex supports are \n, \t and \b. Sad but true...
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- - Allan Stavely, New Mexico Tech, USA
- [Yet another reason to use flex. -John]
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