I hope we have helped.  Even if you do go with just regular expressions,
perhaps having a BNF arrow in the quiver will be useful for other things.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:40 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

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> If it's a contest of Marpa vs. regular expressions, I'm only surprised
>> that it is just 3x. If your grammar parses using regular expressions,
>> regular expressions will always be much faster.
>>
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> Actually this is not only regular expressions -- I've had to built a bunch
> of functions that do the same what rules in grammars do -- organize
> structured data.
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> A while ago I wrote a post with a section on "When NOT to use Marpa".
>> There were 4 cases and grammars that are regular expressions were the 1st
>> one:
>> http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2015/08/fast_handy.html
>>
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> Thanks for hit. I will read this.
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>> ... your grammar that it was part of a larger one... with Marpa is that
>> you can extend the grammar much more easily
>>
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> I am delighted that parsing got that simple with such solutions as your's
> Marpa or Perl6 grammars -- yacc and lex always looked avery wild for me.
>
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> Thank you, greetings from Poland. :)
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