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lexer customization
Dear sablecc users,
I have a problem with a specific specialization
of my sablecc generated lexer (and, eventually, also the parser). My
project involves collecting scattered regular expressions from a fairly large
repository of XML files. The regexps have to be preprocessed and joined to
regexp disjunctions that will eventually be compiled using the sablecc
parser generated from my regexp grammar.
I use an XML parser to get at the regexps.
Preprocessing involves collecting references used in the regexps. To detect
the references in regexps, I would like to use my lexer.
The problem starts here: the generated lexer takes
a PushbackReader as a constructor argument, so I would have to create a new
lexer object for each new regexp though I actually need only a single lexer for
parsing each new regexp.
How can I customize the lexer by adding
something like a setReader() method to a lexer subclass?
Do I have to copy&paste the code in
Lexer(PushbackReader in) to such a setReader() method?
Thanks a lot for help and suggestions,
Franz