From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocamllex -- ambiguous regex
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:45:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020701134551.A32025@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D1F3EFB.6090303@ozemail.com.au>; from skaller@ozemail.com.au on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:25:15AM +1000
> What happens if there is an ambiguous regexp in ocamllex input?
> [The manual doesn't say]
That's an oversight in the manual; thanks for reporting it.
If several regexps match a prefix of the input, the regexp selected is
- the one that matches the longest prefix (so-called "longest match rule")
- in case of tie on prefix length, the regexp that occurs first in the
source .mll lexer.
For instance:
"kwd" { rule 1 }
| ['a'-'z']+ { rule 2 }
The input "kwdkwd" will trigger rule 2 (longest match), but "kwd01"
will trigger rule 1 (first rule among the two that have longest match).
- Xavier Leroy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-01 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-23 21:48 [Caml-list] Stack Overflow... (recursion in try-statement) Oliver Bandel
2002-04-23 22:23 ` Will Benton
2002-04-23 22:50 ` Oliver Bandel
2002-04-23 23:25 ` John Prevost
2002-05-21 18:34 ` [Caml-list] Is CVS version of ocaml faster? John Max Skaller
2002-05-22 3:03 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-05-22 16:29 ` John Max Skaller
2002-06-30 17:25 ` [Caml-list] ocamllex -- ambiguous regex John Max Skaller
2002-07-01 11:45 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2002-06-30 17:27 ` [Caml-list] Manual broken -- set John Max Skaller
2002-04-24 1:01 ` [Caml-list] Stack Overflow... (recursion in try-statement) Warp
2002-04-24 13:22 ` Oliver Bandel
2002-04-24 4:10 ` John Prevost
2002-04-24 4:52 ` Alan Schmitt
2002-04-24 5:31 ` Charles Martin
2002-04-24 13:25 ` Oliver Bandel
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