Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] Handling escaped characters
Date: Sunday, 26 Jan 2020, 19:21:37

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > What does "handle escaped characters within char constants and strings
    > correctly" mean? Isn't our program supposed to ignore char constants and
    > strings? Then why can't we just ignore whatever is inside the char or
    > string, even if it contains an escaped sequence?


Cxref should ignore a char constant or string, but an
escaped character may affect where the char constant
or string ends.  For example, in the sixth line of the
example in the specification (and in Hwk1/test.c)

  three ("\",", ",0);  ",0);

the second " is escaped.  Thus it does not end the
string that started with the first ".  Instead that
string ends at the third ".

--Stan-