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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota@adarose.com>
Subject: Re: Is there a lex utility for Ada that handles unicode?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:33:33 GMT
Date: 2005-10-27T18:33:33+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1498f.23289$dW6.14410@trndny09> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <djr30n$d33$2@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>

Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> 
> Alex and Ayacc:
> http://www.iste.uni-stuttgart.de/ps/ada-software/html/tools.html
> 
> <Warning>
> I've never even looked at them! :-)
> </Warning>
> 
> Cheers

I've used Alex and Ayacc. They are rather close to Lex / Yacc. Lex and 
Yacc, however, are designed to work with 8 bit characters, and Alex / 
Ayacc inherit that design. The parsing of Unicode sources require a 
different set of tools.

> -- Martin


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-27 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-27 17:17 Is there a lex utility for Ada that handles unicode? brian.b.mcguinness
2005-10-27 17:33 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-27 18:33   ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2005-10-27 17:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-28  1:49 ` Steve
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