[ILUG] apache config question..

[Colm MacCárthaigh]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:07:54PM +0000, John Tobin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:17:46PM +0000, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> ? On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:53:43PM -0000, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:
> ? I wish they'd just add lexer rules like:
> ? 
> ? "#"|"//"|"/*"  { state = IGNORE; };
> ? \n   { line_no++; if(state == IGNORE) { state = RESPOND; } };
> ? "*/" { if(state == IGNORE) { state = RESPOND;} }
> 
> 
> Won't that give you a situation where:
> /* this is a comment
> this is not a comment
> */
> 
> assuming C style comments? Or am I reading it wrongly?

actually yeah, you're right, needs to have a state for
multi-line comments, something like:

"#"|"//"  	{ state = IGNORE; };
\n   		{ line_no++; if(state == IGNORE) { state = RESPOND; } };
"/*" 		{ state = ML_IGNORE; };
"*/" 		{ if(state == ML_IGNORE) { state = RESPOND;} }

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