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by Doug Brown (Author), John Levine (Author), Tony Mason (Author)
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This book shows you how to use two Unix utilities, lex andyacc, in program development. These tools 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 andyacc, and Abraxas PCYACC
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    1565920007
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    978-1565920002
  3. Edition
    Second
  4. Publisher
    O'Reilly Media
  5. Publication date
    October 11, 1992
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.95 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    388 pages
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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

About the Author

Gregory Satir helps develop online publishing tools in the Portland, Oregon, office of Electronic Book Technologies. He graduated with a B.S. in computer science from Brown University. Doug Brown is a consultant/contractor in Beaverton, Oregon. He has been developing software for circuit simulation, synthesis, and testing since 1977. Doug coauthored lex & yacc, another O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell Handbook. He received an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976.

John R. Levine writes, lectures, and consults on Unix and compiler topics. He moderates the online comp.compilers discussion group at Usenet. He worked on Unix versions Lotus 1-2-3 and the Norton Utilities and was one of the architects of AIX for the IBM RT PC. He received a Ph.D in computer science from Yale in 1984.

Tony Mason is currently a member of the AFS development team at Transarc Corporation, a small start-up company specializing in distributed systems software. Previously, he worked with the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University in the area of distributed operating systems and data communications. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1987.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; Second edition (October 11, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1565920007
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1565920002
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.95 x 9 inches
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Kattia
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2017
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A classic book
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4.0 out of 5 stars I like this book because it covered parsing and tokenizing from ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2015
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I like this book because it covered parsing and tokenizing from a deeper standpoint. Will re-read a few more times.
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Roger George Doss
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic book.
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2015
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Classic book.
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calvinnme
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good guide to an old but useful programming tool
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2006
Yacc (yet another compiler compiler) and its companion lex (lexical analyzer) are primarily intended to allow quick and easy development of small special-purpose languages. The common mistake is assuming that they are only useful for creating compilers for massively complex eccentric languages. This is not the case, though you could no doubt use them for such a purpose.

Lex and Yacc are commonly used together. Yacc uses a formal grammar to parse an input stream, something which lex cannot do using simple regular expressions since lex is limited to simple finite state automata. However, yacc cannot read from a simple input stream - it requires a series of tokens. Lex is often used to provide yacc with these tokens. As a result, building an application in lex and yacc is often used as an exercise in classes on programming languages and the theory of computation to demonstrate key concepts.

The book starts out building a simple character-driven calculator, and then moves on to build a menu generation language that produces C code that uses the standard "curses" library to draw menus on the screen. The final application is a SQL parser which includes a quick overview of both relational databases and SQL. Some readers will dislike the fact that Lex and Yacc are only capable of generating C code. Thus, the logical conclusion is that you must be able to write C code in order to use these tools. While it would be nice if the sections about the menu generation language and the SQL parser had some information about how to do typechecking and other such things, this book is not about writing a compiler/interpreter using Lex & Yacc. Rather it is just a beginner's guide.

The sections about shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts are especially helpful, as are the sections going over the differences and caveats relating to the major versions of lex and yacc such as AT&T's Lex & YACC, GNU's Flex & Bison, and Berkeley's Yacc. In summary, if you've never used lex or yacc before and think they might be useful tools for you, and you already know the C programming language, this is a handy book to have.
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M. Rumore
2.0 out of 5 stars ok, but there is a better LEX/YACC book
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2004
To keep it simple, the book "Introduction to Compiler Construction in UNIX" introduces and explains LEX/YACC far better than this book. It uses a more realistic example and shows the error handling in more detail. This book is ok for a quick intro, but for a 'real" user, refer to the book I mentioned above.
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bezier
4.0 out of 5 stars Pure happiness
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2013
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Very nice but hang on, because it is tough business. On another hand, if you want to build a compiler...
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M. Sayago
5.0 out of 5 stars A compiler construction essential
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2007
This item is a definite must for coursework dealing with scanning and parsing. I thought that I would be fine if I just relied on web sources to assist me in Lex assignments, but as a deadline approached and I still had no results I turned to this book. The content is clear, concise, and absolutely fantastic. If you want to know how to work with Lex and Yacc, this is the book you need.
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Nathan Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best lex/yacc intorduction out there!
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2004
Like many O'Reilly books, this is really just an introduction to
something that is hard to get intorduced to. The book is not a
definitive guide, but a definitive guide has no starting point.
After reading this book, you should be able to construct some
simple scanners with lex/flex and parsers with yacc/bison, but
more importantly, you should be able to read more definitive
documentation.
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Cunico Enrica
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro assolutamente da avere
Reviewed in Italy on January 21, 2015
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Mi sono imbattuto in questi due tool linux durante i miei studi e questo libro mi ha dato una grossa mano a capirne meglio il funzionamento. Consigliatissimo, ben scritto e ricco di esempi pratici
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M. Friedl
5.0 out of 5 stars It's all about languages...
Reviewed in Germany on January 8, 2014
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First of all I would like to put a focus on the general appearance - unlike many other ebooks this digital edition displays passages containing source code or graphics clearly, with a good contrast and excellent readability. Good layout job by O'Reilly.
Lex and yacc are powerful tools for software engineers, providing efficient ways for parsing source code (and lyric works, if you write any...)
On the other hand, versatility goes along with complexity. Doug Brown understands how to systematically dissect the field into consecutive steps, each accompanied by well chosen examples, leading the reader safely through the jungle of regular expressions, EBNF, symbol tables, grammars and tokens. This book is a good refresher for experienced software developers but a beginner should be aware that the study of the art of compiler construction is inevitable to fully deploy the massive amount of knowledge packed up in this book. Surely not a bedside reading, as you feel the urge to hack in the lines of the examples and see what they do. Considering the mature state of both tools I was not sure if this edition was a good choice - now I am glad to own it.
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Ghislain Foulquier
5.0 out of 5 stars Tres bien
Reviewed in France on March 17, 2013
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Le livre (d'occasion) est en tres bon etat comme il était annonce.
C'est un livre technique, connu pour son haut niveau, une sorte de
bible pour les specialistes, j'en avais besoin et ait été content de
le trouver chez amazon.
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Sergio Slobodrian
4.0 out of 5 stars Gold mine of tips for using these tools.
Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2018
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There are lots of good tips here. I've been using Lex and Yacc for 20 years and there are lots of good tips that make your lex/yacc more useful. The menu example is really dated though and could stand a refresh thus the 4 stars.
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Poupougne
4.0 out of 5 stars Livre de référence
Reviewed in France on January 5, 2014
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Pour comprendre et appréhender les principes des analyses lexicales, syntaxiques et sémantiques, le livre idéal. Même pour le faire autrement qu'avec lex/yacc, car cela permet d'apprendre les principes.
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