[Flex-help] Only include part of matched string in yytext/token

[Daniel J. <dan...@ed...>]

Hi,

Suppose I have a rule

\"[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*\"  { yylval.s = strdup(yytext); return QUOTEDSTRING; }

But I don't want yylval.s to include the actual quote characters. Is 
there a way to tell flex not to include them in the token? They should 
still be consumed.

Otherwise I have to do

\"[a-zA-Z0-9\._\/ ]*\"  { yytext[strlen(yytext)-1]='\0'; yylval.s = 
strdup(yytext+1); return QUOTEDSTRING; }

I don't have a problem with that; I'm just curious whether it is 
possible or not.

Regards,
Daniel