String input to flex lexer

Question

I want to create a read-eval-print loop using flex/bison parser. Trouble is, the flex generated lexer wants input of type FILE* and i would like it to be char*. Is there an

Answer 1

There's this funny code in libmatheval:

/* Redefine macro to redirect scanner input from string instead of
 * standard input.  */
#define YY_INPUT( buffer, result, max_size ) \
{ result = input_from_string (buffer, max_size); }