Re: question

[David Ja]

Hi,
 I see now. Thank you guys all very much. You have been extremely helpful. 
I'll tried it some more. Thanks again.
 Best,
David

 On 8/15/05, Sylvain Schmitz <address@hidden> wrote: 
> 
> David Ja wrote:
> > All I wanted to do was to
> > take advantage of bison's parser which generates the DFA, which in turn,
> > allows me to step through the DFA in sequence generating a sample string
> > that fits the grammar input.
> 
> Are you clear with the fact that the DFA generated by bison is not a DFA
> for the language generated by the grammar, but a handle-finding
> automaton, finding valid prefixes of right sentential forms? If
> generating terminal sentences for a given grammar is really what you are
> looking for, then you might find it easier to generate it directly from
> the grammar.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Sylvain
>