LEX Question

[Henry Spencer]

In article <9580001 at hpcuhb.HP.COM> najmi at 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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