LEX Question

[Mark Nagel]

In article <1989Feb15.200741.15963 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo (Henry Spencer) writes:
|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.

Is there any reason (other than losing stdin) that you couldn't just
freopen stdin to the new input file?  That should be portable enough...

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Dept of Info and Comp Sci
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