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#if !defined(_lexscan_h)
#define _lexscan_h

#include <Attribute/attrvalue.h>
#include <Attribute/commodule.h>

//: Lexical scanner for C tokens, with C-style comment skipping.
class LexScan : public ComTerpModule {
public:
    LexScan();
    // construct on stdin.
    LexScan(const char* path);
    // construct on 'path'.
    LexScan(void*, char*(*)(char*,int,void*), int(*)(void*), int(*)(void*));
    // construct on arbitrary function pointers, with arbitrary void* 
    // pointer to pass to them.
    ~LexScan();

    void init();
    // intialize comment delimeters and internal token buffer.

    attr_value get_next_token(unsigned int& toktype);         
    // return token in structure ready for constructing an AttributeValue.
    const char* get_next_token_string(unsigned int& toktype);
    // return pointer to next token in internal buffer.

    AttributeValue* get_attr(char* buf, unsigned int bufsiz);
    // return token in newly allocated AttributeValue.

protected:
    char* _begcmt;
    char* _endcmt;
    char* _tokbuf;
};

#endif /* !defined(_lexscan_h) */