In the last episode (Jun 20), William G.J. Halfond said:
> I'm not sure if this question is more appropriate for general
> discussion or the internals list.
>
> I want to create a tokenizer/lexer for MySQL's dialect of SQL to use
> in a JAVA application. I thought I could do this by creating a JAVA
> wrapper on the lexer code for MySQL. I looked through the source and
> found the yacc file and the sql_lex file, but was wondering why I
> couldn't find the original lex file? I had hoped to use this to
> generate the lexer code for my application.
sql_lex.cc is the original file. It doesn't use a lex-generated
scanner. It's not all that bad; quite a bit of that file is actually
unrelated to scanning. Only the first 1000 lines or so look like they
have anything to do with processing input, and that looks
straightforward.
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Dan Nelson
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