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Subject: RE: Parsing CL comments
From: "Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:38:43 -0500
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most circumstances. The anomaly is related to comments, and how to
determine, from a dumb text-formatting program's standpoint, where a

comment

actually begins.

Hmm. Recursive descent parsing is your friend.

Is there an English translation for that, James? I have no idea what that
means.

Dennis Lovelady
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