Parsing a file based on differing delimiters

Andrae Muys amuys at shortech.com.au
Sat Oct 25 01:09:35 EDT 2003


kylotan at hotmail.com (Kylotan) wrote in message news:<153fa67.0310221553.4f762ab9 at posting.google.com>...
> bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote in message news:<bn5o45$gru$0 at 216.39.172.122>...
>
> > Look and Andrew Dalke's recent post for a number of ideas and code you might
> > snip and adapt to your problem
> 
> All I found in a short search was something complex that appeared to
> be an expression parser, which is not really what I need here.
> 

To me it sounds like you need parser, so why not just bite the bullet
and use one?

>From your description of the file format earlier in this thread, it
sounds like you just need a straight forward LL parser.

Andrae




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