On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Solomon Foster <colo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Fields, Christopher J > <cjfie...@illinois.edu> wrote: >> I have a fairly simple question regarding the feasibility of using grammars >> with commonly used biological data formats. >> >> My main question: if I wanted to parse() or subparse() vary large files (not >> unheard of to have FASTA/FASTQ or other similar data files exceed 100’s of >> GB) would a grammar be the best solution? For instance, based on what I am >> reading the semantics appear to be greedy; for instance: >> >> Grammar.parsefile($file) >> >> appears to be a convenient shorthand for: >> >> Grammar.parse($file.slurp) >> >> since Grammar.parse() works on a Str, not a IO::Handle or Buf. Or am I >> misunderstanding how this could be accomplished? > > My understanding is it is intended that parsing can work on Cats > (hypothetical lazy strings) but this hasn't been implemented yet > anywhere. > > -- > Solomon Foster: colo...@gmail.com > HarmonyWare, Inc: http://www.harmonyware.com Yeah, that’s what I recall as well. I see very little in the specs re: Cat unfortunately. chris
