C Programming Assignment:

[janconway]

Hey, kinda bit lost with the lab assignment in college. any tips would be really appreciated.
basically we were given a flex file and we've to modify it to see if a string is a keyword or identifier within C itself. Just a bit lost as to where to start.
do i initialise a linked list to compare the two arrays or what?

[CBFalconer]

janconway wrote:

Hey, kinda bit lost with the lab assignment in college. any tips
would be really appreciated. basically we were given a flex file
and we've to modify it to see if a string is a keyword or
identifier within C itself. Just a bit lost as to where to start.
do i initialise a linked list to compare the two arrays or what?

Or what.

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[Grumble]

janconway wrote:

Hey, kinda bit lost with the lab assignment in college. any tips
would be really appreciated. basically we were given a flex file
and we've to modify it to see if a string is a keyword or
identifier within C itself. Just a bit lost as to where to start.
do i initialise a linked list to compare the two arrays or what?

The comp.compilers newsgroup seems more appropriate.

The following document might help:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Lex-YACC-HOWTO.html

[GVK]

janconway wrote:

Hey, kinda bit lost with the lab assignment in college. any tips would be really appreciated.
basically we were given a flex file and we've to modify it to see if a string is a keyword or identifier within C itself. Just a bit lost as to where to start.
do i initialise a linked list to compare the two arrays or what?

If it is just a C programming assignment(no knowlegdge of compilers,
parsers etc. is assumed), you can take a two dimensional array
containing all the keywords,identifiers etc

key[][] = { "int","float",etc etc}

and compare with strcmp(input,key[i]) for all i. This was how I did MY
assignment :)

regards,
GVK

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[Malcolm]

"janconway" <ja*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message

basically we were given a flex file and we've to modify it to see if a
string is a keyword or identifier within C itself. Just a bit lost as to
where to start.
Start by writing this function

char *getidentifier(char *line, char *id)

Return NULL if you run to the end of the line without reading an identifier,
else return the position immediately past the id you just read. To make it
robust, set a max length for id.
do i initialise a linked list to compare the two arrays or what?

You could use a linked list, but a simple array of all the keywords would be
easier. What is the output format?