System Software Lab Programs ( Lex and Yaac Programs ) 3.l

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Subject : System Software Laboratory

Branch : Information Science & Engineering

Semester : 6

University : VTU

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PART – A

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3) Program to recognize and count the number of identifiers in a given
input file.

%{
int id=0;
%}

ID [_a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*
DECLN “int”|”float”|”char”|”short”|”double”|”long”|”unsigned”
%x DEFN

%%
{DECLN}    {BEGIN DEFN;}
<DEFN>{ID}, id++;
<DEFN>{ID}; id++;
<>n ;
<>. ;
%%

main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if(argc==2)
{
yyin=fopen(argv[1],”r”);
yylex();
printf(“n Number of identifiers : %dn”,id);
}
else
printf(“n Usage :%s <file>n”,argv[0]);
}