Outputting to a given filename?

[warren henning]

I am using flex 2.54 in DOS (although I don't think that should really 
affect the answer to my question).

I would like to have flex output to a file; that is, by default, it outputs 
to stdout; I want what would normally go to stdout to go to a filename of my 
chosing.

I looked through the manual and it said that the variable yyout (or is it 
yytext? I'm not sure, I did my best to figure the answer out) can be 
reassigned. I figured I'd do like:

main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
        yyout = fopen("tokenized.data","w");
        yylex();
        fclose(yyout);
}

and of course main() would go in the section of the flex file for auxiliary 
procedures.

And tried this very code in my program, but it seemed to still not work - it 
still outputted to stdout and did not

Am I doing something wrong? I made a good-faith effort to figure it out on 
my own and I'm stumped. Any help is much appreciated.

-Warren

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