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| From | Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> |
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| Subject | Re: Applications using Lex/Flex & Yacc/Bison |
| Date | Sat, 09 Nov 2013 05:42:52 +0100 |
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Partha S Panda schrieb: > Hi, > > I am trying to figure out hardware or software applications other then > compiler-related that utilize yacc/bison and lex/flex respectively. Do you mean existing programs, or what *could* be done? Most applications I know of use other parsers, not lex/yacc. It would be interesting, though, *why* they use other parsers. I could imagine that e.g. counting words or sentences in natural language text could be done using lex/yacc, but would be easier to accomplish, and faster, by other parser techniques. In general lex/yacc allows to parse whatever can be represented in an LR (LALR(1)?) grammar, but not all grammars are acceptable due to restrictions (ambigous...). This could be any formatted data, like BNF, HTML, RTF, TEX, phonebooks, log files, man/info files, or (textual) output of many other programs. I'm not sure whether binary data can be parsed as well, it may be necessary to modify lex/flex for that purpose. Many other parsers come with example grammars that can *not* be used with lex/yacc. DoDi
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Applications using Lex/Flex & Yacc/Bison Partha S Panda <parthaspanda2005@yahoo.com> - 2013-11-07 23:40 -0800
Re: Applications using Lex/Flex & Yacc/Bison Timothy Knox <tdk@thelbane.com> - 2013-11-08 14:12 -0800
Re: Applications using Lex/Flex & Yacc/Bison Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2013-11-09 05:42 +0100
Re: Applications using Lex/Flex & Yacc/Bison mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2013-11-13 19:23 +0000
Re: Applications using Lex/Flex & Yacc/Bison Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> - 2013-12-05 19:09 +0200
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