RE: Nested comments

[Hans Aberg]

At 18:17 -0400 2003/07/02, address@hidden wrote:
>>Read Jeff Friedl's book, especially chapter 6, and then
>ask again if you
>>still need help
>
>I doubt that will be of much help. This user obviously
>understands regexps and PDAs enough to have already
>optimized the obvious (and most maintainable) solution:
>
><COMMENT>{
>"[*"   ++level;
>"*]"   if (!--level) BEGIN(0);
>.|\n   ;
>}

The Flex manual suggests one should try to eat as much as possible in each
rule, and a tried to optimize it that way.

  Hans Aberg
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