Re: parsing compressed files with flex & bison

[Hans Aberg]

On 26 Dec 2006, at 11:48, Aïmen Troudi wrote:

> I have to support compressed files in a project with flex & bison,
>
> actually, the project support only ascii files, my question is :
>
> How to manage compressed files (zip,gzip,bzip2,Z) with flex & bison ?
>
> Can I used zlib library with flex & bison ?

What about unpacking them, before feeding them to the Flex generated  
lexer? The Bison generated parser does not care, as it only reads the  
tokens that the lexer feeds it.

  Hans Aberg