Re: Which lexer do people use?
Akim Demaille <[email protected]>
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Hi John, > Le 4 juil. 2020 à 17:02, John P. Hartmann <[email protected]> a écrit : > > For the scanner and parser I maintain on UNIX and then transport to the EBCDIC world of the mainframe, I had to write my own scanner, but I can get by with Bison as long as I don't use character constants in rules (IBM 360 assembler in rules does work). I don't think you ever posted a snippet of that grammar of yours. I suppose there are IP issues, but maybe you could share just a small bit, or a fake example, so that we can have a better idea of it? > There were a few other hoops, such as no more a tables-only bison option. > > For other work, which is all in C, flex seems satisfactory. Call me oldfashioned. Actually fashion is often wrong, so "old-fashioned" sounds like "wise". Cheers!