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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: How to scan Java source texts?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:38:28 -0400
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On 06/12/2013 02:45 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> The only problem I see now is gaining access to the protected
>> Scanner constructor outside of the com.sun.tools.javac.parser package.
>
>    You need to use a factory method of a ScannerFactory, and to
>    get that, you need to use yet another factory-like method of
>    ScannerFactory, which needs a Context, but this time you can
>    use Context's default constructor.
>
ScannerFactory.instance(new Context()).newScanner(args[0], true);
Wonderful! Thanks.