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/** Setup the input buffer state to scan directly from a user-specified character buffer.
 * @param base the character buffer
 * @param size the size in bytes of the character buffer
 *
 * @return the newly allocated buffer state object.
 */
YY_BUFFER_STATE yy_scan_buffer  (char * base, yy_size_t  size )
{
        YY_BUFFER_STATE b;

        if ( size < 2 ||
             base[size-2] != YY_END_OF_BUFFER_CHAR ||
             base[size-1] != YY_END_OF_BUFFER_CHAR )
                /* They forgot to leave room for the EOB's. */
                return 0;

        b = (YY_BUFFER_STATE) yyalloc(sizeof( struct yy_buffer_state )  );
        if ( ! b )
                YY_FATAL_ERROR( "out of dynamic memory in yy_scan_buffer()" );

        b->yy_buf_size = size - 2;      /* "- 2" to take care of EOB's */
        b->yy_buf_pos = b->yy_ch_buf = base;
        b->yy_is_our_buffer = 0;
        b->yy_input_file = 0;
        b->yy_n_chars = b->yy_buf_size;
        b->yy_is_interactive = 0;
        b->yy_at_bol = 1;
        b->yy_fill_buffer = 0;
        b->yy_buffer_status = YY_BUFFER_NEW;

        yy_switch_to_buffer(b  );

        return b;
}

/** Setup the input buffer state to scan a string. The next call to yylex() will
 * scan from a @e copy of @a str.
 * @param yystr a NUL-terminated string to scan
 *
 * @return the newly allocated buffer state object.
 * @note If you want to scan bytes that may contain NUL values, then use
 *       yy_scan_bytes() instead.
 */
YY_BUFFER_STATE yy_scan_string (yyconst char * yystr );
{

        return yy_scan_bytes(yystr,strlen(yystr) );
}