[erlang-questions] Leex - a lexical anaylzer generator, released

[Ben Hood]

Robert,

On 29 May 2008, at 22:05, Robert Virding wrote:
> As always, now that I have stuck my chin out and released it, report  
> bugs and come with comments.

One feature that I miss from other CC toolkits is being able to  
declare your regexs to be case insensitive.

Here's an example from a JavaCC grammar:

/* Reserved Words */
TOKEN [IGNORE_CASE] :
{
     <  NOT     : "NOT">
   | <  AND     : "AND">
   | <  OR      : "OR">
   | <  BETWEEN : "BETWEEN">
   | <  LIKE    : "LIKE">
   | <  ESCAPE  : "ESCAPE">
   | <  IN      : "IN">
   | <  IS      : "IS">
   | <  TRUE    : "TRUE" >
   | <  FALSE   : "FALSE" >
   | <  NULL    : "NULL" >
   | <  XPATH   : "XPATH" >
   | <  XQUERY  : "XQUERY" >
}

I ended having to put patterns in like

between|BETWEEN

to match lower and upper cases alike.

I know that you are bound by what the regexp module can give you though.

Just a thought,

Ben