Re: Unquoted strings in BASIC

> On 2 Dec 2024, at 03:10, Maury Markowitz <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>=20
> I had managed to get to this point for testing the conditional states:
>=20
> <DATA>[^0-9][A-Za-z]*[,:\n] {
>           yytext[strlen(yytext) - 1] =3D '\0';
>           yylval.s =3D str_new(yytext + 1);
>           return STRING;
>         }

Notice that start conditions are implemented as defines in Flex, so give =
them unique names. Above you could not use =E2=80=9CDATA=E2=80=9D for =
something else.

As an example, I implemented arbitrary identifiers =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6=E2=80=
=9D using %x any_identifier here:
=
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/metalogic-inference.git/tree/src/databas=
e-lexer.ll