Re: parser using perl

true, I have the grammar in the form of BNF. But I am not interested
in converting
the BNF to parser rules, when I know that these productions are not
useful to me.
I am planning to write 8-10 rules and rules for pertaining tokens
only. Of course,
I might have to write additional rules to catch comments etc.

Regards,

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Sharan Basappa

<sharan.basappa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am not a compler expert, but if I all I am interested in few
> productions out of
> many productions, I can setup by scanner to generate tokens pertaining to
> interesting productions and ignore the rest. As I said, I am not a
> compiler expert.
> So, I could be understating the problem ..
>
> I will have a look at the parser library. Thanks ...
>
> Regards
snip

That assumes you have a grammar already, in which case generating a
full parser is easy. The problem comes from incomplete grammars.

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