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11-04-2008, 08:27 AM
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Lex and Yacc Information
Other than the O'Reilly Book by Levine, Mason, and Brown, I am looking for pointers to Lex/Yacc books and online information.
Many thanks.
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11-04-2008, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by cmnorton
Other than the O'Reilly Book by Levine, Mason, and Brown, I am looking for pointers to Lex/Yacc books and online information.
Many thanks.
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You probably can find the needed info using WEB search.
But why are you interested in lex/yacc/flex/bison rather than in newer parser generators and techniques ?
For example, look up "packrat parser", "Elkhound parser", "Elsa parser". |
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11-04-2008, 10:23 AM
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11-04-2008, 10:43 AM
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The simpler tools may do
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Originally Posted by Sergei Steshenko
You probably can find the needed info using WEB search.
But why are you interested in lex/yacc/flex/bison rather than in newer parser generators and techniques ?
For example, look up "packrat parser", "Elkhound parser", "Elsa parser".
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I am interested in parsing things like street addresses. They're getting more complicated as time goes on. |
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11-04-2008, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by cmnorton
I am interested in parsing things like street addresses. They're getting more complicated as time goes on.
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I think for street addresses regular expressions are sufficient.
packrat parsers enable you to parse things with much less parser friendly grammars than the ones accepted by lex/yacc. |
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