Hi there, I'm an absolute newbie when it comes to lexers and parsers. I might have fiddled some with lex- and yacc-style tools while I was a CS student, but not much of it has been left in my volatile brain.
The thing is, I'm curious if a tool like antlr is the right one for a particular job: I need (surprise) to parse some strings that contain tokens of interest. Thing is, these tokens are incredibly loosely defined. Here are some examples where I need to detect the part between braces (the braces aren't there in the real world): [123456] this is some sample text [12:34] this is some more sample text [123456] some more... [12:34:56^2] another example [12:34:56@bleh] still another [12:34:56^1@blah] and a last one, just for the fun of it. On the contrary, the strings [12345], [1234567], [12:34:5] etc. should not be detected as a token of interest. So as I said above, my question is: should I be using antlr to detect these things ? Should I stick with regex'es ? To be honest and since I'm a playful type of guy, I started writing a grammar definition for my problem. I might post it here to treat you all knowledgeable people to a good laugh. But I might be interested first in any online (and free, for the time being) resource you would point me to in order to not make to much of a fool of myself and get to know more about this stuff in a practical and not too theoretical kind of way. Now, let me just thank you for reading till this point. Regards, -- Alain Perry List: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/listinfo/antlr-interest Unsubscribe: http://www.antlr.org/mailman/options/antlr-interest/your-email-address -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "il-antlr-interest" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/il-antlr-interest?hl=en.
