Question about Lex

[Simon Parsons]

In article <1159 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:

>   If you have a 'plain vanilla' lex (as delivered with many UNIXes), there
>   might be an easy - yet undocumented - way: The standard input/unput-macros
>   support a variable 'yylino' which is incremented with every line read.

But if you want it to be 'portable' between lex and flex, you CAN define
a rule

"\n"   { LineNo++; }

and do it yourself.

Simon
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