Re: case insensitive lexing?

["Prof. Laurie HENDREN" <hendren@cs.mcgill.ca>]

How is the SAS paper going?

Laurie

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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:

> Hi steve.
> 
> > I need to build a case-insensitive lexer, namely recognize about 80
> > keywords whose case doesn't matter.
> 
> I already answered this:
> 
> http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/listarchives/sablecc-list/msg00234.html
> 
> > Is there an easy way to extend a lexer for id=[A-Za-z][A-Za-z_0-9]* so
> > that it could return the appropriate keyword token if the id is one of
> > the reserved words (keywords) of the language, and return the "id" token
> > otherwise?
> 
> Just put all the keyword tokens first, then put the "id" token
> definition. 
> 
> Etienne
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