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+Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
+From: "John W. Millaway" <johnmillaway@yahoo.com>
+Subject: Re: comments in lexical definitions
+To: Tobias Ostgathe <ostgathe@tesionmail.de>
+Cc: help-flex@gnu.org, Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de>,
+        "W. L. Estes" <wlestes@uncg.edu>
+In-Reply-To: <003301c1264e$0677bea0$2465e2c3@wuschtbix>
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+*** EOOH ***
+Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
+From: "John W. Millaway" <johnmillaway@yahoo.com>
+Subject: Re: comments in lexical definitions
+To: Tobias Ostgathe <ostgathe@tesionmail.de>
+Cc: help-flex@gnu.org, Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de>,
+        "W. L. Estes" <wlestes@uncg.edu>
+In-Reply-To: <003301c1264e$0677bea0$2465e2c3@wuschtbix>
+
+> > > I'm missing the possibility to include comments in lexical definition
+
+Flex does allow comments everywhere you could possibly need them. This
+discussion suggests a failure in the flex docs to make the syntax clear. What's
+the trick, then? 
+
+1. Use traditional C comments, not '//' comments.
+2. INDENT THE COMMENT.
+
+-John
+(Exhaustive example follows)
+
+%{
+    /* 1  */
+%}
+    /*  2  */
+%option reentrant
+%x STATE_X
+
+%%
+   /* 3 */
+ruleA    /* 4 */ { /* 5 */}
+ruleB    /* 6 */ ECHO; /* 7 */
+   /* 8 */
+<STATE_X>{
+ruleC   ECHO;
+   /* 9 */
+ruleD   ECHO;
+}
+
+%%
+/* 10 */
+
+
+
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