Re: [Flex-help] Flex Question

[Daniel Varga-H. <var...@ov...>]

Hi!

It is possible to do lexical analysis on strings. I have written a
very silly and not too practical example, but you can get the concepts
out of it:
http://codepad.org/qcxZNnu9

Regards,
Daniel

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Brian Russell <bru...@ua...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I'm trying to create a search engine that can read queries off the
> command line.  For example ./search dog would search for the term dog.  My
> question is if there is a way for flex to read the query terms directly into
> the program.  I need to process each query term in order to properly query
> my records.  Right now, I'm writing each query term to a temporary file and
> then setting yyin as the file name.  I tried using the default stdin instead
> but realized it was not finding the command-line arguments.  Is there any
> way to make yylex read in a char array or any way to direct the argv[] array
> to stdin?  Any ideas on how to make this program without creating temporary
> files would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Russell
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