yacc & lex - cupla questions

[Jeff Hollingsworth]

In article <32114 at cup.portal.com>, chucka at cup.portal.com (Charles -
Anderson) writes:
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|> >1.)  how does one redefine the i/o in a yacc/lex piece of code?  i.e.
|> >the code which is generated defaults to stdin and stdout for input and
|> >output, respectively.  i'd like to redefine these defaults w/o having 
|> >to hack on the intermediate c-code, since this is a live production 
|> >project; i'd like to be able to update and modify the program simply by 
|> >saying "make". 
|> 
|> You can use freopen, or if you wish another file use dup.
|> 

A cleaner approach is to use the file variable yyin.  Which lex uses to get 
its input.  Thus yyin = fopen(infile, "r") will do the redirection and leave
standard in alone.  Just do this before calling yyparse().


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