Originally Posted by
iamthwee 
First you gotta know what your regular expressions are doing.
To me string_component [0-9a-zA-Z \t\.!#$%^&()*@_] and the example you have given is contradictory, like salem mentioned.
ok, maybe it is contradictory, but how can you express in flex the concept i wrote before? eg recognize some tokens and consider everything else a string...