Re: Using flex and bison from within a cocoa application ?
Re: Using flex and bison from within a cocoa application ?
- Subject: Re: Using flex and bison from within a cocoa application ?
- From: Hasan Diwan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:16:05 -0800
Robert:
Just call flex/bison as you would from C. It should work fine. While I
think it's overkill for your project as described below, flex/bison
will scale if you need to add more to the grammar without much
difficulty.
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On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 10:07 AM, Robert Miller wrote:
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> Hello,
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> This may be a simple question I'm not sure, I'm not too unix savvy.
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> My program needs to parse an input string (NSString) from a text
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> field and it was recommended to me to use yacc/lex A.K.A bison/flex
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> on OSX to accomplish the parsing and analysis of the string ? Anyway,
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> are there any examples available on how to use these features from
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> within a Cocoa application ? My parsing is similar to a simple
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> calculator *,/,+,- with some other special tokens that would need
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> to be recognized and dealt with. Is the bison/flex combination the
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> proper way to go ? any help would be greatly appreciated..
Hasan Diwan
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