Re: [Flex-help] Starter question.

[<Wor...@gm...>]

I've replaced the lines 5 and 6 because he matches first the lines with 
the most matches and that is normaly .|\n but again same problem =(.

On 27.02.19 14:00, Wor...@gm... wrote:
> Hi everyone, i've got me the book flex&bison and have troubles with 
> one of the first examples:
>
>
> 1. %{
>
> 2. #include <stdio.h>
>
> 3. %}
>
> 4. %%
>
> 5. [_a-zA-Z0-9]+\(     { printf("This is a function name %s 
> (steps=%i)", yytext, steps++); }
> 6. .|\n                    { printf("do nothing"); }
>
> 7. %%
> 8. int main(int argc, char **argv)
> 9.{
> 10.    yylex();
> 11.    return(0);
> 12. }
>
> Now my problem is that also strings like 12342welcome( are beeing 
> "marked" as beeing functions ... what am i doing wrong here ? the 
> default route .|\n is said to do nothing, so why does he matches also 
> digits with my function catching example ?
>
>
> best regards!
>
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