4. Implement lex based Scanners for all the examples for regular expressions given in this chapter.
5. If you are familiar with Perl or Python language, try to implement the Scanner for the simple
language given in Chapter 2 in that language. Compare with the hand-coded C Scanner.
6. Can you implement a compiler for a programming language using only lex as the tool? What
problems, if any, would you face? Hint: Look up the theory of Pumping Lemma for FSM and
CFG in Appendix A.
7. Implement for C the error handling as suggested in Section 3.4.
8. Write regular expressions for the following languages ...
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