Re: Different behaviour with string and number tokens ?

[Hans Aberg]

Yes. But you now get a cleanup-problem -- how remove the strings once  
used. Since I do not use C, I do not know how people usually solve it.

On 18 Apr 2006, at 09:47, Arno Wilhelm wrote:

> > This is one of the most FAQ here: you do not copy the string, so  
> > you  just pass on a pointer to the buffer in the Flex generated  
> > lexer,  which of course changes in subsequent calls to the lexer.
>
> Ahh, ok. So I could change this behaviour if I would copy the  
> string to a buffer in flex like this:
>
> {WORD}         { strcpy( yylval.str, yytext); return WORD; }
>
>
> Is this right ?
>
>
> thanks,
> arno