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From: ray@emacs.uucp (Ray Reeves)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: comments in lex
Message-ID: <114@emacs.uucp>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:45:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 08:45:50 1985
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I'm new to lex, and the first thing I tried wouldn't fly!
How do you recognise a PL/1 style comment?
This is what I did:

startcom	\/\*
endcom		\*\/
%%
{startcom}[^{endcom}]{endcom}	printf("%s","comment")

But negation doesn't take conjunctions, even when packaged like this.
What should I do?
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Ray Reeves,
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