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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: flex vs. lex
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:11:39 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <19970421215130.42112@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 21, 97 09:51:30 pm
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> Does anyone know how to take an old program that depends on lex quirkiness
> (such as rewriting input() ) and make it work with flex?  Any pointers?  I've
> been searching for an hour now and havent found a thing :(

Use the "-l" argument to flex.

Use "man lexdoc".

Also see the O'Reilly book on yacc and lex; it has a section on
converting code.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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