Re: simple Flex program?

[Alexandru]

The project is to be done in C++ and Flex. It is for a course of Finite Language Automata but unfortunately Flex information has been very little. So it has no practical use...just to test our skills. Which I lack :(
 Do you have anything that does a similar search so I can modify the flex code and get the job done? Thanks,
 Alex

Hans-Bernhard Br�ker <address@hidden> wrote:
>  Alexandru wrote:
> > I'm totally new to flex and just received a project that is due in a few 
> > days. I want to ask you if it is a hard one to solve and if anyone can 
> > give me some help. 
>
> This is almost guaranteed to be impossible to do in *any* time frame by 
> a newbie.  For starters, the job is basically impossible to do with flex 
> alone.  C syntax can't be captured by regular expressions alone.  By the 
> time
>  you're able to finish this task, you'll no longer be a (f)lex 
> newbie, and it'll take a lot more than just a couple days to get there.
>
> > Give one ore more C files.For each file generate a txt file containing 
> > the functions found in the C files and for each function : its type, its 
> > name, the nomber of parameters and their name.
>
> Why anyone would want to know the *names* of a C function's formal 
> parameters evades me.  Those generally mean nothing.  The only thing 
> that really counts is their type.
>
> > So? Is it hard or has anyone done something like this already? 
>
> cxref exists.

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