Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: LEX Question
Message-ID: <1989Feb15.200741.15963@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <32240@auc.UUCP> <9580001@hpcuhb.HP.COM>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 20:07:41 GMT

In article <9580001@hpcuhb.HP.COM> najmi@hpcuhb.HP.COM (Farrukh Najmi) writes:
>... one can make it read from a file (using file pointer)
>by declaring the file pointer variable and then assigning
>it to yyin...

Be careful:  this is not a documented feature, at least not in all versions
of lex, and therefore should not be relied on too heavily in portable code.
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