Strangeness in lexer?

[michael at optusnet.com.au]

Anyone know why the lexer has the '\.*' bit in
the headers?

<INITIAL>^To/:\.*                               { if (header_line_markup) set_tag("to:"); }
<INITIAL>^From/:\.*                             { if (header_line_markup) set_tag("from:"); else return TOKEN; }
<INITIAL>^Return-Path/:\.*                      { if (header_line_markup) set_tag("rtrn:"); else return TOKEN; }
[...]

This seems to say 'lookahead for zero or more dots' which is always true.

????


Very strange.

Michael.