From: David Given <dg@cowlark.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 16:55:44 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Better error reporting for unterminated strings.
X-Git-Url: https://git.ndcode.org/public/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a023fd85915df5e9959641e1b2ad8816b3cae0d6;p=ack.git

Better error reporting for unterminated strings.
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diff --git a/util/mcgg/scan.l b/util/mcgg/scan.l
index 447a7d395..9d06d5b38 100644
--- a/util/mcgg/scan.l
+++ b/util/mcgg/scan.l
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ static int braces = 0;
                                 yylval.string = strdup(yytext);
                                 return QFRAGMENT;
                             }
+<QSTRING>.                  yyerror("bad string input '%s' at line %d\n", yytext, yylineno);
 
 <INITIAL>"/*"               BEGIN(COMMENT);
 <COMMENT>"*/"               BEGIN(INITIAL);