I want to write a rule that will recognize strings in a language (MUMPS) that doubles double quotes as a means of escaping them. For example "The double quote symbol is \"." would be "The double quote symbol is ""." and "\"" would be """". That seems simple enough except that I need to write regular expression that matches any printing character (including #\spacer and #\tab except, of course #\". There is the complement operator, but that gives me any character but #\", not quite what I want. With a set difference, I suppose I could do something like
DQUOTE (DQUOTE DQUOTE | printing - DQUOTE)* DQUOTE but again, I'm not quite sure how to express this in the lexer. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
