Non-backtracking flex parsers work faster than backtracking ones.  So, this
commit gets rid of backtracking in jsonpath_scan.l.  That required explicit
handling of some cases as well as manual backtracking for some cases.  More
regression tests for numerics are added.

Discussion: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ik=a20b091faa&view=om&permmsgid=msg-f%3A1628425344167939063
Author: John Naylor, Nikita Gluknov, Alexander Korotkov