Re: yylex and yy_scan_string()

[Bruce Lilly]

On Tue March 22 2005 07:57, Nicolas Peyrussie wrote:

> This is my code :
[...]
> void lex_initFile(char *file)
> {  
> 
>   yyin =  fopen(file,"r");
>   printf("%s\n",file);
>   yylex();
> }
[...]
> The problem is that the program stops after the yy_scan_string(), when
> I thought it should start again where it had stopped thanks to the
> yylex().

Each call to yylex returns a single token; it returns zero
at the end of input.

If you want more than one token, you have to call yylex more
than one time.  See any introductory text on lex for details.