mermoy buffer as input to flex

[Basavaraj Kodgalli]

Hello Group

I am little stuck in flex, let me know if you can pull me out of this problem. 
Just to give u what I am doing, I am writing a thread-safe parser to parse some 
SQL command line commands (which means no global variables. OK?) and i am using 
flex v2.5.4

Ok now I want to pass memory buffer as the input to flex instead of FILE 
without using any global variable. That means I should pass it as argument 
right?

But How???????

I know by redefining YY_INPUT we can make the buffer to be input, if go with 
this implementation the buffer should be a global variable. Because function 
“static int yy_get_next_buffer()” is the function which uses the macro YY_INPUT 
which unfortunately does not takes any arguments. So how can I achieve my 
objective?

Any light on this folks?

does %option reentrant does makes any magic here?
does %option reentrant works with flex v2.5.4

Let me know if you need any more idea. 

Thanks,
BAS


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