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by Doug Brown (Author), John Levine (Author), Tony Mason (Author)

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition (1 Oct 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1565920007
ISBN-13: 978-1565920002
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm

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This book shows programmers how to use two UNIX utilities, lex and yacc, in program development. lex and yacc are tools that help programmers build compilers and interpreters, but they also have a wider range of applications. The second edition contains completely revised tutorial sections for novice users and reference sections for advanced users. This edition is twice the size of the first and has an expanded index. The following material has been added: Each utility is explained in a chapter that covers basic usage and simple, stand-alone applications How to implement a full SQL grammar, with full sample code Major MS-DOS and UNIX versions of lex and yacc are explored in depth, including AT&T lex and yacc, Berkeley yacc, Berkeley/GNU Flex, GNU Bison, MKS lex and yacc, and Abraxas PCYACC

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Shows programmers how to use two Unix utilities, lex and yacc, in program development. You'll find tutorial sections for novice users, reference sections for advanced users, and a detailed index. Major MS-DOS and Unix versions of lex and yacc are explored in depth. Also covers Bison and Flex.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Better than nothing, 8 Mar 2000

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Except for the commercial versions of lex & yacc, there is scant documentation on these potentially very useful tools. This book ought therefore to be very welcome. Unfortunately it fails to deliver some important goods, like an explanation of the cryptic, mostly undocumented diagnostic messages that come out of yacc, or a substantial example of how to embed yyparse in another application--so as to do something useful, other than just validating syntax.

The review of different implementations is valuable, and the comments on portability were extremely helpful to me.

This book has been around for a while, and neither lex nor yacc have evolved much in the last many years, so the authors could reasonably have been asked to produce a more exhaustive second edition by now. It would necessarily have become a standard work. Unfortunately this present volume is often more tantalizing than helpful. Still, it's better than nothing.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, badly needed, but incomplete and frustrating, 1 May 1997

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In general this book is very good, and I would highly recommended it for anybody using tools like lex and yacc. It covers all the areas (both good and bad) of these tools. However, I find that the book is frustrating and incomplete in two ways :- (1) when it comes to solving some of the problems reported by such tools as lex and yacc, there is not enough of examples, especially less-trivial examples, and some of the more potentially obscure problems that can occur. (2) it is very frustrating that the page numbers listed in the index are out by 1 or 2 pages. In this era of technology this should not happen.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best out there, 6 Mar 1998

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A really good book...this is basically the only good tutorial/reference on purely yacc/lex topics. If I have one complaint it is that it should be a little longer, but otherwise it's great; it covers all the lex/yacc versions including flex and bison, has good examples as well as thorough explanations of key concepts. If you need to parse a complex file format or compile a language, this is basically required reading.

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