Thread: Lexer / Parser

Does anyone know of good resources for writing a lexer and parser? I'm having difficulty locating a tutorial or course specific on the subject (In C). Are they even big enough subjects to warrant that or should I just sit down and play with some code for a while? I'm sorta on the outside when it comes to these tools right now and I have not yet taken a compiler course but I would assume a compiler course may touch on these subjects.

Thanks for your recommendations.

Do you have a specific grammar in mind?

You could try recursive descent.

You should also check out the bison parser and the flex lexer.

Yes, trying to write a JSON serializer. Thanks for the links!

Originally Posted by Asymptotic

trying to write a JSON serializer.

That's a good choice since it's relatively simple. JSON
I recall writing a quick-and-dirty JSON parser to dump torrent contents.