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<h1 class="chapter">16. Interfacing with <code>yacc</code></h1>

<p>One of the main uses of <code>flex</code> is as a companion to the <code>yacc</code>
parser-generator.  <code>yacc</code> parsers expect to call a routine
named &lsquo;<samp>yylex()</samp>&rsquo; to find the next input token.  The routine
is supposed to return the type of the next token as well
as putting any associated value in the global <code>yylval</code>.  To
use <code>flex</code> with <code>yacc</code>, one specifies the &lsquo;<samp>-d</samp>&rsquo; option to <code>yacc</code> to
instruct it to generate the file &lsquo;<tt>y.tab.h</tt>&rsquo; containing
definitions of all the &lsquo;<samp>%tokens</samp>&rsquo; appearing in the <code>yacc</code> input.
This file is then included in the <code>flex</code> scanner.  For
example, if one of the tokens is &quot;TOK_NUMBER&quot;, part of the
scanner might look like:
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