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folks,

if this is not the right place for a flx and bison question, please do
let me know.  i have just started using flex and bison with c++ on 
DEC OSF1 V3.0

i am using flex to parse a text file and return string tokens to bison.
i have declared in my .y file

#define YYSTYPE char *

it seems to me that somewhere in yylex(), for every token found, the
token needs to be copied to a safe place and have its pointer returned
in yylval?  like:

      char * temp = new char [1024];
      scanf ("%s", temp);
      yylval = temp;
      return (TOKEN_1);

this is a mess since bison probably won't know how to free the strings
after they have been used.

am i missing something?  is there a better way to do this?


Victor Ma