how would u....

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i have to make a compiler like program that reads a program from file, counts the number of identifiers(constants,variables,functions) and adds the number of occurences of each identifier including line numbers and identifier names to a binary tree and then displays the results in a sorted order......im unsure where to start or how its done any suggestions would be gr8....thanks

[Prelude]

>im unsure where to start
A good starting point would be a legal pad, draw out what you want to do and toy with different ways of doing it until you find something you like. It would also be a good idea to have the binary tree up and working properly so that you don't have to worry about it when writing the rest of the parser.

-Prelude

[Stoned_Coder]

Get your binary tree up and running first then build in the file operations and string tokenising then you are about 90% done.

[sean]

http://www.aihorizon.com has some good ways of doing stuff like this. Check them out.