Lex Help

[Vijey Jenkal]

Hi
I am a student at Kansas University. We have a product that uses Flex
extensively and I have encountered a problem with it that I am not quite
able to solve. While the root might be elsewhere I would like to get some
questions straightened out.

The problem itself is that I send data to a remote host in the form of
tokens. At the other end of the socket the fd is redirected to yyin and
the lex builds a string out of the token until a } is received. The string
can get as long as 1938 bytes. The string is then parsed using Yacc.

If, however the string length goes beyond this length (1939 byte), the lex
engine goes into a weird state and is not able to analyse any more.

Please, feel free to think aloud and reply about what ever you think the
problem is.

Thanks for your time.

vijey

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Vijey Jenkal
Graduate Research Assistant.
Team Niehaus.
University of Kansas @ Lawrence.
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