To: "Boris Zinin" <boris@ippe.rssi.ru>
Subject: Re: current position in flex buffer
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:58:23 PST.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:03:15 PST
From: Vern Paxson <vern>

> The problem is how to determine the current position in flex active
> buffer when a rule is matched....

You will need to keep track of this explicitly, such as by redefining
YY_USER_ACTION to count the number of characters matched.

The latest flex release, by the way, is 2.5.4, available from ftp.ee.lbl.gov.

		Vern