Re: [Flex-help] Flex loops!

[Mark R. <mar...@gm...>]

2009/5/5 Marcel Laverdet <ma...@la...>

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> Also worth mentioning is that flex works on BYTES not CHARACTERS. Assuming
> UTF-8 here, '°' will be two bytes. If you want to match this in flex you'd
> need a rule like:
> \xc2\xb0 { ... }
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> 0xc2b0 is the binary representation of '°' in UTF-8. That's why in the
> example below there was one more extra "strange symbol" than expected.



that's very interesting. there is a way to say "all symbol I type as to be
seen as a single character"? It's very important for me, because I've an
offset counter!