This book explains how to use flex and bison to solve your problems quickly. Flex and Bison utilities have proven to be more reliable and more powerful than the original Unix tools. Flex & bison covers the same core functionality vital to Linux and Unix program development, along with several important new topics. Revised tutorials for novices and references for advanced users, as well as an explanation of each utility’s basic usage and simple, standalone applications that can be created with them can be found in this text.