Re: Parse input string and input file with same buffer state

[Hans Åberg]

> On 7 Dec 2017, at 18:59, Harsha Sharma <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a way to parse input string and input file (pushing
> buffer state created with yy_scan_string to buffer state created with
> yy_create_buffer to parse input file). It either causes segmentation
> fault or parses either the string or the input file.

The string pointed to (in a lexer generated by Flex) must be copied before 
passed on elsewhere, as it is just a pointer in a buffer, temporarily 
null-terminated.