[dundee] Parser howto... possibly including bisons so watch out!

[Rick Moynihan]

I've not had chance to use it yet, but have taken an interest in
Ragel, which has been used successfully by several projects, including
Mongrel, hpricot and many others...  It's based on  state machines and
will generate code for many languages including C,C++, Java, Ruby,
Python etc...

http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~thurston/ragel/

More suitable might be ANTLR, which appears to have excellent
documentation and even a book available.  I believe this is what is
used by groovy, the scripting language for the JVM, and many other
projects.  It currently generates Java, C#, C++, and Python:

http://www.antlr.org/

R.

On 11/02/2008, Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hey, I was just wandering whether anyone had any experience making
> parsers. I am currently trying to make a PS2 game (using the PS2 Linux
> Devkit) and want to start creating config files for various things
> (maybe XML, maybe custom layout, yet to be decided) and have tried
> looking into writing my own parser function. I can't seem to find
> anything anywhere in the form of a guide or tutorial to give me
> directions. Everywhere I look says Bison.
> I have tried looking for Bison tutorials and come up with very little too.
> Does anyone have any experience with Bison or even have any knowledge on
> the writing of parsers?
>
> Thanks
> Nistur
>
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