Lex/YACC: Difference between revisions

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Lex and yacc are parser generating tools originally developed for the MULTICS operating system, basically Lex does lexical analysis while Yacc handles syntax analysis. The two are always distributed together and complement each other but are also useful on their own to a degree.

Links

Lex & YACC homepage at Compilertools.net

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-YACC is a Look-Ahead LR parser generator that takes Backus–Naur Form text files and generates LALR parsers from it. Primarily used as tool for generating front end parsers for compilers or formal validation for file formats in export filters and so on, so forth.
+'''[[Lex]]''' and '''[[yacc]]''' are parser generating tools originally developed for the MULTICS operating system, basically Lex does lexical analysis while Yacc handles syntax analysis. The two are always distributed together and complement each other but are also useful on their own to a degree.
-==Lex/YACC compatible tools that run under OS/2==
+==Links==
-* [[Turbo Pascal Lex/YACC]] - Open source tool that uses L/Y syntax but outputs [[Turbo Pascal]] compatible code.
+* [http://dinosaur.compilertools.net/ Lex & YACC homepage] at Compilertools.net
-====OS/2 text & programmers editors with Lex file and YACC BNF file support====
+[[Category:Generic Unix Tools]][[Category:Parsing Tools]][[Category:Compiler construction]]
-* [[jEdit]] - Java based - Lex and YACC syntax highlighting built in - Current.
-* [[NEdit]] - XFree86 - Autoindent, autocomplete and syntax highlighting for YACC BNF files - Open source - Discontinued.
-[[Category:Tools]]
-[[Category:MS Windows Tools]]
-[[Category:Generic Unix Tools]]
-[[Category:Parsing Tools]]
-[[Category:Compiler construction]]