successive QUOTEDs

[Shimura Dai]

Hi.

I was trying to extract successive QUOTEDs with flex.
It should take 2 or more QUOTED(i.e. "something")s for one token.

e.g.
"abc" "def"   =>   "\"abc\" \"def\""

Now I don't think I should use flex for this purpose.
I think I should connect them by bison or something in stead.
I'm just very curious.

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I wrote a program below, but it doesn't work correctly.
Can anybody correct the program?

$ cat foo.l
%{
%}
text        (\\\")|([^\"])
quoted      \"{text}*\"
%%
{quoted}+   {printf("quoted:%s\n",   yytext);}
.           {printf("char:%c\n",    *yytext);}
$

wrong example:
$ flex foo.l ; gcc lex.yy.c -lfl ; ./a.out < test1
quoted:"\"","
char:b
char:a
char:r
char:"

correct example:
$ flex foo.l ; gcc lex.yy.c -lfl ; ./a.out < test2
quoted:"\"a"
char:,
quoted:"bar"

$

the input files are....
$ cat test1
"\"","bar"
$ cat test2
"\"a","bar"
$

I'm using flex 2.5.4 .
$ flex -V
flex version 2.5.4
$

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