From:	fiore AT cs DOT buffalo DOT edu (Joseph N Fiore)
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Subject:	Re: flex/bison lower/upper case question
Date:	10 May 1997 23:28:28 GMT
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Gary R Sekinger (sekinger+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
> I'd like to have my grammar be case insensitive but this doesn't seem
> very easy. I've started specifying all the various combinations, which
> isn't very practical:
[snip]

Quoth the man page, flex command line options:

     -i    instructs flex to generate a case-insensitive scanner.
          The  case  of  letters given in the flex input patterns
          will be ignored,  and  tokens  in  the  input  will  be
          matched  regardless of case.

So if you 'flex' using the command line:   flex -i blah.l
as far as the lexer is concerned seed == SEED == Seed == SeEd == ...

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