Lex program to take input from file and remove multiple spaces, lines and tabs
FLEX (Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator) is a tool/computer program for generating lexical analyzers (scanners or lexers) written by Vern Paxson in C around 1987. Lex reads an input stream specifying the lexical analyzer and outputs source code implementing the lexer in the C programming language. The function yylex() is the main flex function which runs the Rule Section.
Prerequisite: FLEX (Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator)
Example:
Input:
hello how
are
you?
Output:
hellohowareyou?
Input:
Welcome to
Geeks for
Geeks
Output:
WelcometoGeeksforGeeks
Approach:
Open input file in read mode and whenever parser encounters newline (\n), space ( ) or tab (\t) remove it and write all the other characters in output file.
Input File: Input.txt (Input File used in this program)
Below is the implementation program:
/*Lex program to take input from file and remove multiple spaces, newline and taband write output in a separate file*/ % { /*Definition section */ %} /* Rule: whenever space, tab or newline is encounterd, remove it*/% %[ \n\t]+ {fprintf(yyout, "");}. { fprintf(yyout, "%s", yytext); }% % int yywrap(){} // driver code int main(){ /* yyin and yyout as pointer of File type */ extern FILE *yyin, *yyout; /* yyin points to the file input.txt and opens it in read mode*/ yyin = fopen("Input.txt", "r"); /* yyout points to the file output.txt and opens it in write mode*/ yyout = fopen("Output.txt", "w"); yylex(); return 0;} |
Output:
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