Re: don't want to display yyout

[Hans Aberg]

At 13:22 -0400 2005/05/18, Aaron Jackson wrote:
> On May 18, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Nicolas Peyrussie wrote:
> > I am using flex and don't want to see yyout as output.
> > The only way I found to sort it out was to redirect yyout to a file 
> > (out.txt), but I don't think it is a really good idea to do that.
> >
> > Do you know if I can just say 'I don't want to see the output' in Flex ?
>
> The flex man page says:
>
> The scanner writes its ECHO output to the yyout global  (default,  std-
>        out), which may be redefined by the user simply by assigning it to some
>        other FILE pointer.

I think Flex imnplements a default rule
  .  ECHO
which can be overriden by writing
  .  { /* whatever you like */ }
--
  Hans Aberg