Re: Help asap

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Sunday, Jun 22, 2003, at 13:14 US/Eastern, MC B wrote:

>  Using C++ lexer, flex and bison .l and .y files
>
> how to implement a program that outputs the number of roman numbers
>
> Example: if in the text there is V, it must return 5

Using flex and bison to convert from Roman to Indo-Aribic numerals is a 
huge overkill.

It'd be what, 10 lines of C++? Considering all you have to do is look 
ahead one character to see things like IV; otherwise, it's strait
        if (c = 'V')
                i += 5;
etc.