Why lex & yacc think this is a syntax error?

["Wen Yi" <896634148@xxxxxx>]

Hi team,

I am learning the yacc & lex and want to use it to make a config parser, as you can see, the config file is following these rules:

key = value

For example:

memory_limit = 512

memory_unit = 'MB'

time_limit = 12

time_unit = 's'

And I make such a yacc & lex rule file:

/*
    config.y
        The yacc rule file to analyse the config string
    Wen Yi
*/
%{
#include <stdio.h>
int yylex();
int yyerror(char *s);
%}
%token NUMBER STRING
%token TOKEN
%token EQUAL
%token NEWLINE
%union
{
    double number;
    char *string;
    char *token;
}

%%

Rule:
| TOKEN EQUAL NUMBER NEWLINE { printf("%s = %f\n", $1.token, $3.number);  }
| TOKEN EQUAL STRING NEWLINE { printf("%s = %s\n", $1.token, $3.string); }
;

%%

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    yyparse();
}
int yyerror(char *s)
{
    puts(s);
}

/*
    config.l
        The lex rule file to parse the config string
    Wen Yi
*/
/*
    Rule
        Setting = 'value' (string)
        Setting = value (numbder)
*/
%option noyywrap
%option noinput
%{
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "y.tab.h"
%}

%%

    /*
         Number
     */

"+"[0-9]+ { yylval.number = atof(yytext); return NUMBER; }
[0-9]+ { yylval.number = atof(yytext); return NUMBER; }
-[0-9]+ { yylval.number = atof(yytext); return NUMBER; }
[0-9]+.[0-9]+ { yylval.number = atof(yytext); return NUMBER; }
-[0-9]+.[0-9]+ { yylval.number = atof(yytext); return NUMBER; }

    /*
        String
    */

'.+' {
    size_t length = strlen(yytext);
    yytext[length - 1] = '\0';
    yytext[0] = '\0';
    memmove(yytext, yytext + 1, length - 1);
    yylval.string = strdup(yytext);
    return STRING;
}
"''" {
    yylval.string = strdup("");
    return STRING;
}

    /*
        Common Token
    */


[a-zA-z0-9_]+ { yylval.string = strdup(yytext);return TOKEN; }

    /*
        Equal =
    */

"=" { return EQUAL; }

    /*
        New line
    */
\n { return NEWLINE; }

    /*
        Other things
    */

. { ; }

%%

I think I have ignored the extra characters, but when I running it:

[beginnerc@bogon config]$ make config
lex config.l
yacc -d config.y
gcc lex.yy.c y.tab.c
[beginnerc@bogon config]$ ./a.out
memory_limit = 512
memory_limit = 512.000000
memroy_unit = 'MB'  
syntax error
[beginnerc@bogon config]$ ./a.out
memory_unit = 'MB'
memory_unit = MB
memory_limit = 512
syntax error
[beginnerc@bogon config]$

Can someone give me some advice? I really don't know why the 'syntax error' message showed.

Thanks in advance!

Yours,

Wen Yi