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From: simonp@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question about Lex
Message-ID: <SIMONP.91Jun3091558@lister.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
Date: 3 Jun 91 09:15:58 GMT
References: <1991May29.081912.16808@fel.tno.nl> <1159@mwtech.UUCP>
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In-Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP's message of 31 May 91 10: 32:37 GMT

In article <1159@mwtech.UUCP> martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:

>   If you have a 'plain vanilla' lex (as delivered with many UNIXes), there
>   might be an easy - yet undocumented - way: The standard input/unput-macros
>   support a variable 'yylino' which is incremented with every line read.

But if you want it to be 'portable' between lex and flex, you CAN define
a rule

"\n"   { LineNo++; }

and do it yourself.

Simon
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