[clug] An EBCDIC lex ?

[steve jenkin]

Paul Matthews wrote on 14/08/10 5:48 PM:
>  On 14/08/10 15:42, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>> Something like what in ASCII will say:
>>     DIGIT    [0-9]
>> should now say
>>     DIGIT    [\xf0-\xf9]
>> (I think this is how you escape hex in flex input)
>>
> Now that is a good idea Eyal.
> 
> ( A lot less tedious than attempting a handwritten state machine. )
> 

Paul,

My recollection of using a C compiler on 370-series was constants of the
form 'x' (ie char) would be encoded as EBCDIC.

So cut-and-paste of Flex files, as long as state machine in chars, would
work out-of-the-box.

HTH
s

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