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Add support for comments in lrlex files #403
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Generally lrlex has focused on following the posix lex specification (but hasn't implemented comments yet if I recall), Here are some examples, the latter showing some of the cases where initial whitespace is not required: |
Agreed, it would be good if lrlex supported comments, and I'd happily take a PR to that effect! If flex supports them, I might also be inclined to support |
So, I had noticed the text in #325 the following text in the posix lex spec:
Which is relevant to this bug, it would be easy enough to currently just ignore any line which starts with a space. I believe |
I started using lrlex and didn't find a formal definition of its file format but it seems there is no way to write comments in .l files. I think that would be a useful feature to support.
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