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
