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Building a Programing Language – Part I (Creating BrainLess)

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11 Oct 2013LGPL317 min read 62.1K   600   114  
This is the first of a series of articles where we will explore about writing compilers.
#ifndef __BRAINLESS_HELPER__
#define __BRAINLESS_HELPER__
/*
Author : Shakti Misra
All are welcome to use these files, distribute, modify and release. But This notice should be included.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

#define DIM( a ) (sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]))

class FileRead
{
private:
    int m_iCount;
    int m_iIndex;
    char m_szBuffer[101];
    const string m_sFileName;
    FILE* m_pFile;
    char m_cCurChar;
    bool m_bEOFReached;

private:
    char getNextCharInternal();

public:
    FileRead(string sFileName):
          m_sFileName(sFileName),
          m_iCount(0),
          m_iIndex(-1),
          m_cCurChar(0x0),
          m_bEOFReached(false)
    {
        if(false == m_sFileName.empty())
        {
            m_pFile = fopen(m_sFileName.c_str(), "rb");
        }

        memset(m_szBuffer, 0x0, DIM(m_szBuffer));
    }

    ~FileRead()
    {
        if(NULL != m_pFile)
        {
            fclose(m_pFile);
            m_pFile = NULL;
        }
    }

    char getNextChar()
    {
        return getNextCharInternal();
    }

    char getCurrentChar(){return m_cCurChar;}

    int getNextNumber();
    bool unreadChar(const char);

    bool isEOF(){return m_bEOFReached;}
};

#endif //__BRAINLESS_HELPER__

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I like to explore different aspects of technology. Try new things, and get delighted. My interests are programming language, and Imaging. But its not hard to work on other things also. Algorithms delight me over a coffee break.

I basically code in C++, but JAVA is not so alien for me. I know few scripting languages also. Basically I feel that knowing a programing language is just a matter of getting introduced to it.

For my other articles check my blog on homepage:

http://brainlesslabs.com/

https://github.com/BrainlessLabsInc

http://www.luxrender.net/en_GB/authors_contributors - SMISRA

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