OpenEuphoria

Re: json

• Posted by ghaberek (admin) Aug 02, 2012
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Ah ha! In reading this post, I did some Googling and started poking around with the code from that very same page.

Unfortunately, I had to backtrack a bit, as I feel one thing that would help make file/string parsing a bit easier in Euphoria would be more dynamic file and memory stream I/O, especially buffered I/O with a putback() or peek_next_char() function.

Here's a quick example I threw together in my head.

stream s = stream:open( filename, STREAM_READ ) 
 
while not stream:eof( s ) do 
 
    -- peek a single character (i.e. get the next character, but do not advance the 
    -- file position, so the next call to stream:getc() returns the same character) 
 
    char c = stream:peekc( s ) 
 
    switch c do 
 
        case '{' then 
            process_json_object( s ) 
 
        case '[' then 
            process_json_array( s ) 
 
        case else 
            puts( 2, "Expected '{' or '['\n" ) 
            abort( 1 ) 
 
    end switch 
 
end while 
 
stream:close( s ) 

It may also be advantageous to have the programmers of Euphoria itself add one of the open-source C-based processors to Euphoria directly. It would be nice to have a proper in-built XML parser as well.

-Greg