Re: Flex recognition of "split" keywords

[John R. Levine]

Hey, a different message.

>I'm writing a Fortran Scanner in flex

Like everyone's been telling you, it's still a bad idea.

>Is there any way that flex can recognise a keyword 
>which is split into several words such as:
>
>GO TO
>
>as 1 keyword?

Not in any useful way.  Even if you made a special case for GO TO,
you'd still miss these:

     G OTO
     GO T O
     GOT O
     G OTO
     G OT O
     G O T O     
etc.

Regards,
John Levine, comp.compilers moderator, 
address@hidden, http://compilers.iecc.com

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