Re: Binary scanner not matching character ranges

[Shaun Jackman]

Thanks for your help. I figured it would be something I'd
misunderstood. Will flex print a human-readable form of the NFA/DFA so
that I can check for these mistakes myself?

Cheers,
Shaun


> Note that a dot in a quoted string matches a literal
> dot character, whereas an unquoted dot matches any
> character except a newline.  So input 0xff 0xfd 0x03
> does *NOT* match "\xff\xfd." (but 0xff 0xfd 0x2e
> would).  Lacking a match with any other rule, each
> of 0xff, 0xfd, and 0x03 match the lone dot rule.