RE: Parser

[vilohidi@mbnet.fi]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Erik wrote:

> lex/yacc (flex/bison) make it incredibly easy to make simple parsers. lex
> (short for lexical analyzer) tokenizes the string and passes the information
> back to yacc (yet another compiler compiler), which then applies grammar rules.
> It's used a lot in writing compilers and interpreters, but can easily be worked
> into a game... there is an article in the linux section of ibm's developer
> works, part of the "pirates ho" series, I THINK number 4, that talks about
> using lex and yacc as a video game scripting language... An input parser would
> basically be a scripting interface that does immediate actions on single lines
> :)

Can you give me any adresses?

--
Wille <vilohidi@mbnet.fi>


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