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Leex and yecc by example: part 1

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Leex and yecc by example: part 1

Starting a series on lexing and LALR-1 parser generators using leex and yecc. The series is really focused on the “by example” part since it took me a long time to get started with these tools.

The first example is lexing and parsing advent of code 2024 day 3. Hope you enjoy!

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