Guidelines

Date of postage.

Tuesday, January 21, 2003.

Original due date.

Tuesday, February 11, 2003.

Final due date.

Tuesday, February 18, 2003 (due to technical problems with the web server of the course).

Due format.

The assignment should be returned to the instructor by email. Your work will consist of

• one main file containing all answers to questions except computer programs
• one attached file per computer program.

The main file can be

• either a text file and in that case this will be the message of your email
• or an attached postscript or PDF file.

No other formats than text, postscript or PDF are allowed. Please contact the instructor if you have any technical difficulty with these formats. The computer programs of this assignment are all input files for the flex (or lex) program. The preferred version of flex/lex is flex version 2.5.4. If you are not using it then you should use lex on the GAUL network of the Computer Science Department. The output file lex.yy.c (of your flex/lex compilation) should be compiled with the gcc compiler and the -ansi option. Moreover the lex.yy.c should be compiled against the libl (or libfl) library.

Late penalties.

See the Course outline.

Collaboration.

You are expected to do this assignment on your own without assistance from anyone else in the class.

Marking.

This assignment will be marked out of 20.