parsing quoted strings help

[Dub Spencer]

hello,

trying to get the contents of a quoted string from lex to bison, I setup 
these expressions:

<stmt>\"                             BEGIN(qstr); return QUOTE;
<qstr>[^\"\r\n]*                     yylval=yytext; return STRING;
<qstr>\"                             BEGIN(INITIAL); return QUOTE;

so, whenever in a statement a quote occurs, switch to quotedstring mode 
and match everything except quotes and newlines (dos compatible).

the parser then looks for QUOTE STRING QUOTE and duplicates $2 (yylval 
is declared char const * to avoid errors) - but this always includes the 
closing quote. is this the expected behaviour?

thanks for your reply,

peter