unnamed-faq-69

     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