[Flex-help] Including Newline and Carriage Return in yytext

[Allen B. <Al...@ep...>]

I am struggling to get the newline and carriage return characters to appear in the yytext "buffer."

For instance let's say I was trying to match with the rule:

MY[ ]STRING=.*\r?\n {
              memcpy(my_buf,yytext,yyleng);
}

Which you can see copies the buffer exactly to my_buf. Unfortunatly I only get the portion of the string matched by MY[ ]STRING=.* but not the optional carriage return or newline character.

How does one change this behavior?