Re: Which lexer do people use?

[Akim Demaille]

Hi John,

> Le 4 juil. 2020 à 17:02, John P. Hartmann <jphartmann@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> For the scanner and parser I maintain on UNIX and then transport to the 
> EBCDIC world of the mainframe, I had to write my own scanner, but I can get 
> by with Bison as long as I don't use character constants in rules (IBM 360 
> assembler in rules does work).

I don't think you ever posted a snippet of that grammar of yours.  I
suppose there are IP issues, but maybe you could share just a small
bit, or a fake example, so that we can have a better idea of it?

> There were a few other hoops, such as no more a tables-only bison option.
> 
> For other work, which is all in C, flex seems satisfactory.  Call me 
> oldfashioned.

Actually fashion is often wrong, so "old-fashioned" sounds like "wise".

Cheers!