[prog] lex/yacc problem

[Jimen Ching]

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Almut Behrens wrote:
>do you hava a rule somewhere that handles the occurrence of whitespace, e.g.
>
><INITIAL>{WS}  { }
>
>in its most simple case (i.e. to ignore whitespace)?  If not, the lexer
>will pass the string " = " to the parser, instead of "=", as your yacc
>grammar expects.

I have the following two patterns in the lex specification:

WSs			{WS}+

<INITIAL>{NL}		{ cur_lineno++; }
<INITIAL>{WSs}		{ }

Note, these two patterns are at the top of the lexer specification (comes
before all other patterns).

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