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flex: Can I build nested parsers that work with the same input file?

 
 Can I build nested parsers that work with the same input file?
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 This is not going to work without some additional effort.  The reason is
 that 'flex' block-buffers the input it reads from 'yyin'.  This means
 that the "outermost" 'yylex()', when called, will automatically slurp up
 the first 8K of input available on yyin, and subsequent calls to other
 'yylex()''s won't see that input.  You might be tempted to work around
 this problem by redefining 'YY_INPUT' to only return a small amount of
 text, but it turns out that that approach is quite difficult.  Instead,
 the best solution is to combine all of your scanners into one large
 scanner, using a different exclusive start condition for each.
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