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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: LEX Question
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Date: 25 Feb 89 01:03:20 GMT
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In article <1521@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>In <1989Feb24.165832.9921@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
><... If you redefine input(), you
><have to provide your own buffering scheme, or have it provided for you
><by a library. ...
>
>You will probably also want to arrange to increment yylineno on every
>newline.  This is often done in the pattern/action part.

     This is only true if you USE yylineno.  Lex doesn't use it for
anything beyond keeping track of it for you.  If you don't care what
the line number is, lex doesn't either.
Earle R. Horton. 23 Fletcher Circle, Hanover, NH 03755--Graduate student.
He who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the kingdom
of winners.  In any case, 'BACK' doesn't work.