Chapter 12. lex and yacc Program Information

For a program to receive input, either interactively or in a batch environment, you must provide another program or a routine to receive the input. Complicated input requires additional code to break the input into pieces that mean something to the program. You can use the lex and yacc commands to develop this type of input program.

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