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Lexical analysis is the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens.

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Efficient C Tokenizer/Lexer in C++

I hate this: buffer = (char*)malloc(file_size + 1); assert(buffer != nullptr); The trouble is that if you have a build system set up to build this it will probably define NDEBUG for productio …
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Simple C99 Lexer

Same Lexer writtern in Lex. Lexer.l startsIdentifier [a-zA-Z_] isInIdentifier {startsIdentifier}|[0-9] isHexChar [0-9A-Fa-f] isOctal [0- …
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Simple C99 Lexer

Spotted a bug: while (character == '/' && peekChar() == '/') { skipLineComment(); character = skipWhitespace(); } while (character == '/' && peekChar() == '*') { skipBlockComment(); c …
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Tokenizer for my programming language

Issues with EBNF string ::= '"' {(any_character | string_escape)} '"'; Here for "any_character" you probably meant any character except " but that is not made explicit. number ::= [('+' | '-')] {digi …
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Tokenize and detect syntactic errors in simple math expressions

Observation First observation use Flex/Bison. Learn it once it makes all this stuff trivial. OK. Got that out the way. Looking at the current code. Style You treat tokenizing and analyzing as two …
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