Re: Cookie replacement function

[Evan Lavelle]

A couple of things to watch out for:


> [[:alnum:]]+            yylval = yytext; return WORD;
> ^.*$                    yylval = yytext; return STRING;

what are you trying to match here? Is your reasoning that any 
alphanumeric will get caught in the 1st rule, and everything else in the 
2nd? This won't work - any alphanumeric will actually be caught by the 
2nd rule, because of the explicit '$'/NL match. Try to handle your NLs 
explicitly, and/or use more explicit/descriptive regexps.


> cookie: STRING
>        |
>        '%' '{' WORD '}'

You need a catch-all rule to let through %, {, and }, otherwise this 
will be matched as a STRING; something like

.  return yytext[0];

HTH -

Evan