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To: "Repko, Billy D" <billy.d.repko@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Compiling scanners
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:52:47 PST.
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:25:30 PST
From: Vern Paxson <vern>

> It appears that maybe it cannot find the lfl library.

The Makefile in the distribution builds it, so you should have it.
It's exceedingly trivial, just a main() that calls yylex() and
a yyrap() that always returns 1.

> %%
>       \n      ++num_lines; ++num_chars;
>       .       ++num_chars;

You can't indent your rules like this - that's where the errors are coming
from.  Flex copies indented text to the output file, it's how you do things
like

	int num_lines_seen = 0;

to declare local variables.

		Vern