C code to ignore pascal comments

[modesto916]

Hi,

I have a homework to do for college, which asks me to write a pascal lexical analizer in C. I'm trying to figure out the best way to ignore the comments, so far I've written this code, which works, but I would like to know if there is an simpler way to do that, here is my code:

   input = fopen("./arquivo.pas", "r");

   while ((c = fgetc(input)) != EOF)
   {
      if (c == '{')
      {

         do
         {
           c = fgetc(input);
         }
         while (c != '}');

         continue;

      } else if (c == '/')
      {
         if (( c = fgetc(input) == '/'))
           do{}while((c = fgetc(input)) != '\n'); 
        else
        {
           printf("/");

           fseek(input, -1, SEEK_CUR);

           continue;
        }

      }

      printf("%c", c);
   }

Regards.

[Ancient Dragon]

delete lines 14 and 26, the continhue statement is not needed

[ionix]

not needed lines 14 and 26, delete pls

[np complete]

Till this, it will work fine. In lexical analyzer you are required to create parse tree for semantic checkings. You may want to refer to a book "Compilers Principals Techniques and tools" by Aho, Ullman, Sethi.

[WaltP]

A couple other things worth noting:

1: do{}while((c = fgetc(input)) != '\n');
Why a do-while? Why not just while((c = fgetc(input)) != '\n');??

2: fseek(input, -1, SEEK_CUR);
Why? Can't you do something better/cleaner than messing with the file pointer?
It looks like you're already handling the case without the fseek().

3: printf("%c", c);
This is a very expensive statement to use for character output. It's much cleaner to use putchar().

[modesto916]

Why? Can't you do something better/cleaner than messing with the file pointer?

There is where I'm getting confused with the logic, if the character is a slash, and the next character is not a slash, I need to treat that character, as it is not a comment. Any suggestion?

thanks.

[WaltP]

What would you do with the character if you read an 'A'? Do that with the '/' in the else then continue as normal since c now contains the next character.

read char
if '/'
    read char
    if '/' ignore rest of line
    if not '/' do your stuff with '/'
do your stuff with char

[modesto916]

Hi,

I'll try to improve this code, Thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions.

Regards.