How do I match a string in bison grammar? A string that stands for itself like “polySphere” let’s say. Will I have to create a token in the .lex file like POLYSPHERE and then use that in bison? Can’t I just use the string directly?
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How do I match a string in bison grammar? A string that stands for itself like “polySphere” let’s say. Will I have to create a token in the .lex file like POLYSPHERE and then use that in bison? Can’t I just use the string directly?
Thanks
You could recognize the string in bison character by character, eg:
but that is rather ineffecient — generally its much better to recognize the string in the lexer and return a single token