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From: "Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Is there a lex utility for Ada that handles unicode?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:49:48 -0700
Date: 2005-10-27T18:49:48-07:00	[thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 1130433435.410224.186300@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

<brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com> wrote in message 
news:1130433435.410224.186300@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Is there some equivalent of the lex utility that produces
> Ada code rather than C code, and is capable of handling
> any character in the Unicode basic code plane?  I am
> thinking of using it on strings read from a GUI created
> with GtkAda, so it would probably be best if it accepted
> UTF-8 strings, but I could convert the input to a wide
> string if necessary.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- Brian
>
I don't know if it helps, but if I were looking (based on what I have seen 
in the past) I would look at:
  Aflex
  Ayacc
  OpenToken

Source code is available.  It probably wouldn't be that much work to make a 
unicode version.

Steve
(The Duck) 





      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-28  1:49 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
2005-10-27 17:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-28  1:49 ` Steve [this message]
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