Write a lex input file that sill produce a program that counts characters,words,

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Write a lex input file that sill produce a program that counts characters,words,lines in a text file and reports that counts.Define a word to be any sequence of letter and/or digits,without punctuation or spaces.Punctuation and white space do not count as words.Write the above program ignoring c sttle comments specified by /* */ i.e comments will be ignored when counting the words,lines,chars in a input fil Write a lex input file that sill produce a program that counts characters,words,lines in a text file and reports that counts.Define a word to be any sequence of letter and/or digits,without punctuation or spaces.Punctuation and white space do not count as words.Write the above program ignoring c sttle comments specified by /* */ i.e comments will be ignored when counting the words,lines,chars in a input fil

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code:

%

{

#include<stdio.h>

#include<stdio.h>

int cno=0,wno=0,lno=0;/*counts of character words and lines*/

%}

characters[a-cA-z]

digit[0-9]

word({character}{digit})+line

%%

{line} {cno++;lno++;}

{word}{wno++;cno+=strlen(yy test);}

{cno++;}

%%

int main(void)

{

yylex();

printf("number of characters,%d",cno);

printf("number of words:%d",wno);

printf("number of lines:%d",lno);

return 0;

}

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