Re: dumb: make yacc tolerate "extra" stuff in a file

scinar@my-deja.com
27 Aug 1999 01:50:36 -0400

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From: scinar@my-deja.com
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 27 Aug 1999 01:50:36 -0400
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Keywords: yacc

tdeckard@vitalimages.com wrote:
> How do I convince yacc to overlook elements in the file for which
> it lacks patterns? My file to be parsed


You could also get bison to count your braces for you.


Like this:


thing : all tokens - { '{', '}' }
            | ignore ;
blackhole: blackhole thing | thing;
ignore: '{' blackhole '}'
            | '{' '}' ;


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