methods to parse big foreign ascii-file?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	holger krekel [SMTP:pyth at devel.trillke.net]
> Igor Stroh wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:05:51 +0200, "holger krekel"
> > <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > - come up with a grammar and let a parser do
> > >   the hard work (which one?)
> > 
> > if the file is structured in a certain form, that is you can describe
> the
> > data structure with a EBNF, then have a look at 'simpleparse' (I've lost
> > the link, but google will certainly have some for you :) )...
> 
> thanks. This might be simple yet powerful enough for the task. I must
> try hard to remember EBNF-grammars from my diploma exams, though :-)
 
There is an article about SimpleParse and EBNF here -
<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-simple.html>.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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