Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 08:12:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Flex rules
To: BRYAN-R AT mis DOT scitec DOT com DOT au
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>and the rule was really [A-Z][A-Za-z0-9-_] which is supposed to read as 
>Starting letter of A to Z, the rest of the leters consisting of A to Z or a to
>z or - or _. I now know why the resulting script compiler didn't work as the
>first line of the test source script had a '-' in it. 
>
>Is there some sort of special delimiter to include '-' in the rule or should 
>the context sort it out?

I imagine it might work to escape it with a backslash.

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