>>>>> "KF" == Ken Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dave Storrs wrote:
>> why didn't you have to write:
>>
>> rule ugly_c_comment {
>> /
>> \/ \* [ .*? <ugly_c_comment>? ]*? \* \/
>> { let $0 := " " }
>> /
>> }
> Think of the curly braces as the regex quotes. If "{" is the quote
> then there's nothing special about "/" and it doesn't need to be
> escaped. Also, I don't think you want spaces between "/" and "*"
> because "/ *" isn't a comment delimiter.
but remember that whitespace is ignored as the /x mode is on all the
time.
uri
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