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      To: "Boris Zinin" <boris@ippe.rssi.ru>
      Subject: Re: current position in flex buffer
      In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:58:23 PST.
      Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:03:15 PST
      From: Vern Paxson <vern>
      
      > The problem is how to determine the current position in flex active
      > buffer when a rule is matched....
      
      You will need to keep track of this explicitly, such as by redefining
      YY_USER_ACTION to count the number of characters matched.
      
      The latest flex release, by the way, is 2.5.4, available from ftp.ee.lbl.gov.
      
      		Vern