25 Additional Reading

You may wish to read more about the following programs:

• lex
• yacc
• sed
• awk

The following books may contain material of interest:

John Levine, Tony Mason, and Doug Brown, Lex & Yacc, O’Reilly and Associates. Be sure to get the 2nd edition.

M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt, LEX – Lexical Analyzer Generator

Alfred Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, Addison-Wesley (1986). Describes the pattern-matching techniques used by flex (deterministic finite automata).