[erlang-questions] Leex dot

[datacompboy]

rvirding wrote:
'.' is supposed to mean any character except newline
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I have separate rule for newline


rvirding wrote:
so what you have there may seem wrong. But the characters for each state are not independant of all other state, it could depend on your other rules. 
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Whole grammar:

Definitions.

COMMENT1 = (*(*([^*)]|[^*])|*[^)])****)
COMMENT2 = //([^n]*)
STRING = "(\^.|\.|[^"])*"
QUOTE = '(\^.|\.|[^'])*'

Rules.
// Numbers
([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[eE][+-][0-9]+) : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {number, YYline, erlang:list_to_float(YYtext)}}.
([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[eE][0-9]+) : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {number, YYline, erlang:list_to_float(YYtext)}}.
([0-9]+[.][0-9]+)   : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {number, YYline, erlang:list_to_float(YYtext)}}.
([1-9][0-9]*)       : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {number, YYline, erlang:list_to_integer(YYtext)}}.
([0]*)              : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {number, YYline, 0}}.
(0x[0-9]+)          : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {number, YYline, erlang:list_to_integer(YYtext,16)}}.

% Number as char with code
\.                 : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {number, YYline, lists:nth(2,YYtext)}}.

% Any atom:
([A-Za-z_][a-z0-9A-Z_]*)    : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, special(YYtext, YYline)}.

%% string

({STRING}|{QUOTE}) :    %% Strip quotes.
            S = lists:sublist(YYtext, 2, length(YYtext) - 2),
            YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token,{string,YYline,string_gen(S)}}.

{COMMENT1}|{COMMENT2} : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, skip_token.

>= : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'>=', YYline}}.
<= : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'<=', YYline}}.
<> : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'!=', YYline}}.
!= : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'!=', YYline}}.
=~ : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'=~', YYline}}.
-> : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'->', YYline}}.
, : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {',', YYline}}.
+ : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'+', YYline}}.
- : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'-', YYline}}.
> : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'>', YYline}}.
< : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'<', YYline}}.
=  : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'=', YYline}}.
* : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'*', YYline}}.
: : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {':', YYline}}.
/ : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'/', YYline}}.
$ : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'$', YYline}}.
@ : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'@', YYline}}.
% : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'%', YYline}}.
( : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'(', YYline}}.
) : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {')', YYline}}.

%}  : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'}', YYline}}.
%{  : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'{', YYline}}.
%[ : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'[', YYline}}.
%] : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {']', YYline}}.

[rts] : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, skip_token.

n : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {'n', YYline}}.

. : YYlen, YYtcs, YYline, {token, {char, YYline, hd(YYtext)}}.

Erlang code.

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After compilation code above (you can just remove unknown functions, that was defined in erlang code to see), we have one of state follows:
yystate(??, [C|Ics], Line, Tlen, _Action, _Alen) when C >= $