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Re: Parser

• Posted by "Patrick Barnes" <mistertrik at hotmail.com> Nov 22, 2003
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As long as your string type can handle spaces...

Either in linux shell fashion:  Hello\ World!

or "Hello World"

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>From: Stewart MacKenzie-Leigh <stewartml89 at msn.com>
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: Parser
>Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:23:55 +0000
>
>
>I have recently wrote a parser which reads in a file and turns it into a 
>stream of tokens.
>
>A file containing:
>
>     hello world 123 456 'comment
>    'c' "hello"
>
>would return
>
>   {{ID, "hello", 1},         -- {Token description (constant), token 
>string, line number}
>    {ID, "world", 1},
>    {NUM, "123", 1},
>    {NUM, "456", 1},
>    {CHR, 'c', 2},
>    {STR, "hello", 2}}
>
>The characters for comments, chars, strings etc. can be set.  However, they 
>can only be single chars.
>
>Does anyone have any other ideas for it before I finish it off and upload 
>it to the archive?
>
>Thanks
>
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