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    Refresher..

    I haven't coded for a couple of years now and when I did, I wasn't the greatest but I got by. I have a couple of problems that I have to figure out. First being, how would you get a program to print to a text file? I've never had to do it before so I'm a little lost. The other thing is where can I go to get a better understanding of lexing and parsing? The objective is that i'm trying to code a simple lexing and parsing program. any help would be great, thanks.

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    umm, well here is an example it might help ya
    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <fstream>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
       string somevar = "somevartext";
       ofstream out ("textfile.txt");
       out << "Some text";
       out << somevar;
       out.close();
       ifstream in ("textfile.txt");
       if ( in.is_open() ) {
          getline( in, somevar );
          cout << 'File Text: " << somevar << endl;
          in.close();
          return 0;
    }
       else {
          return 1;
    }
    }
    lol, I know that is most likely useless but enjoy

    EDIT: I edited the code alittle
    Last edited by Raigne; 08-26-2006 at 12:48 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jed
    First being, how would you get a program to print to a text file?
    It's pretty much the same as printing to the screen except you have to make the stream yourself instead of use cout.
    Code:
    #include <fstream>
    #include <iostream>
    
    int main()
    {
      // make your own stream to myFile.txt
      std::ofstream os("myFile.txt");
    
      // make sure that it's open before printing to it
      if (os)
      {
        // use it just like cout
        os << "Let's print to a file!\n";
      }
      else
      {
        std::cerr << "Something bad happened\n";
      }
    
      // the stream closes automatically
    
      return 0;
    }
    I don't know anything about lexing and parsing, sorry.

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    About the lexing/parsing I had to write a full compiler in C before and we used an external programming language/program that would generate the necessary C code for us, which is much easier than writing C code by hand. Basically you use sort of a script language to define rules and pattern matching rules and it generates C code for you to include in your project. Depending on the complexity of your parsing/lexing problem you might want to check out:

    Lex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_programming_tool
    &
    Yacc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacc

    There are also versions for C++ and Windows environments.

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    Lex/parser generator for C++

    Where could I find a generator for C++ environment? Are there any sharewares out there? thanks a bunch.

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    Would anyone have some simple lex and pars codes that I can look at and get an idea? thanks

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    Boost.Spirit and Boost.Wave. The first is a parser framework and the second is built on top of Spirit to implement a lexer.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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