Re: Unquoted strings in BASIC

[Hans Åberg]

> On 1 Dec 2024, at 16:07, Maury Markowitz <maury.markowitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But many dialects allow strings to be unquoted as long as they do not contain 
> a line end, colon or comma:
> 
> DATA 10,20,HELLO,WORLD!

One way is to use context switches; see the Flex and Bison manuals.

In the .l file one has say:

%x DATA_decl

%%

DATA { BEGIN(DATA_decl); }

<DATA_decl>{
  …
  \n { BEGIN(INITIAL); }
}
with … being special syntax for this context, and exiting the context on \n.