[ragel-users] Scanner question

[Jose Quinteiro]

And BTW, congrats on your defense.

Saludos,
Jose.

Jose Quinteiro wrote:
> Yep, that does it.  Thanks again.  I was trying something similar with 
> Kleene stars and getting nowhere.  I don't have a good feel for this yet.
> 
> Saludos,
> Jose.
> 
> Adrian Thurston wrote:
>> Try this:
>>
>> 'num' ( 'b' ('e' 'r'?)? )?
>>
>> A long time ago there was talk of adding a machine construction 
>> function (called prefix I think) for this case but it never got done 
>> because it depended on adding some new syntax forms and I didn't have 
>> the time. Hopefully I can revive that soon. I defended my PhD 
>> yesterday and life should return to normal soon :)
>>
>> -Adrian
>>
>> Jose Quinteiro wrote:
>>> That also accepts "nume", "numr", etc., and I want those to be an error.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jose.
>>>
>>> Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Jose Quinteiro <jose at ordinate.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to write a scanner that accepts "num", "numb", "numbe", 
>>>>> etc.
>>>>> as the same token.  The only way I can think of that accomplishes 
>>>>> this is:
>>>> I admit I haven't even tested, but I'd expect something like 'num'
>>>> 'b'?'e'?'r'? to work
>>>>
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