Ebook: Flex & amp; bison

If you need to parse or process text data in Linux or Unix, this useful book explains how to use flex and bison to solve your problems quickly. flex & amp; bison is the long-awaited sequel to the classic O'Reilly book, lex & amp; yacc. In the nearly two decades since the original book was published, the flex and bison utilities have proven to be more reliable and more powerful than the original Unix tools. flex & amp; bison covers the same core functionality vital to Linux and Unix program development, along with several important new topics. You'll find revised tutorials for.;Table of Contents; Preface; Scope of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Getting Flex and Bison; This Book's Example Files; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introducing Flex and Bison; Lexical Analysis and Parsing; Regular Expressions and Scanning; Our First Flex Program; Programs in Plain Flex; Putting Flex and Bison Together; The Scanner as Coroutine; Tokens and Values; Grammars and Parsing; BNF Grammars; Bison's Rule Input Language; Compiling Flex and Bison Programs Together; Ambiguous Grammars: Not Quite.