Re: Using flex and bison from within a cocoa application ?

FROM : Hasan Diwan
DATE : Sun Nov 10 09:16:05 2002

Robert:
   Just call flex/bison as you would from C. It should work fine. While I
think it's overkill for your project as described below, flex/bison
will scale if you need to add more to the grammar without much
difficulty.
> On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 10:07 AM, Robert Miller wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>     This may be a simple question I'm not sure, I'm not too unix savvy.
>> My program needs to parse an input string (NSString) from a text
>> field and it was recommended to me to use yacc/lex A.K.A bison/flex
>> on OSX to accomplish the parsing and analysis of the string ? Anyway,
>> are there any examples available on how to use these features from
>> within a Cocoa application ? My parsing is similar to a simple
>> calculator *,/,+,-  with some other special tokens that would need
>> to be recognized and dealt with. Is the bison/flex combination the
>> proper way to go ? any help would be greatly appreciated..
Hasan Diwan
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