RECOGNITION OF A VALID VARIABLE WHICH STARTS WITH A LETTER FOLLOWED BY ANY NUMBER OF LETTERS OR DIGITS USING YACC
To write a YACC program to recognize a valid variable which starts with a letter followed by any number of letters or digits.
- Start the program.
- Write a program in the vi editor and save it with .l extension.
- In the lex program, write the translation rules for the keywords int, float and double and for the identifier.
- Write a program in the vi editor and save it with .y extension.
- Compile the lex program with lex compiler to produce output file as lex.yy.c. eg $ lex filename.l
- Compile the yacc program with YACC compiler to produce output file as y.tab.c. eg $ yacc โd arith_id.y
- Compile these with the C compiler as gcc lex.yy.c y.tab.c
- Enter a statement as input and the valid variables are identified as output.
%{
/* This LEX program returns the tokens for the Expression */
#include"y.tab.h"
%}
%%
"int" {return INT;}
"float" {return FLOAT;}
"double" {return DOUBLE;}
[a-zA-Z]*[0-9]* {printf("\nIdentifier is %s",yytext);
return ID;
}
. return yytext[0];
\n return 0;
%%
int yywrap()
{
return 1;
}
A YACC program to recognize a valid variable which starts with a letter followed by any number of letters or digits is executed successfully and the output is verified.