Not to mention that you can also read it :) Doru
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Peter Uhnák <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks all, > > in the end I've used PetitParser and I was really surprised and happy how > easy and far I've got with it. > > TBH using regular expressions in Pharo feels extremely uncomfortable to me > compared to Perl or Ruby, but maybe that was design decision by the author > to not be too hacky. > > So at least to me PetitParser feels like a more practical regex library > than Regex itself. > > Peter > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Damien Cassou <damien.cas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Peter Uhnák <i.uh...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I would like to parse text like >> > ----- >> > id(param1, param2, ... paramX) >> > id -> id >> > id ->> id >> > ----- >> > id is alphanumeric string, >> > param is any string optionally enclosed in quotes (so both quoted and >> > unquoted string is needed) >> >> >> I would start with streams and regular expressions. If that's not >> powerful enough I would use PetitParser. If that's not fast enough, I >> would try SmaCC and compare speed. >> >> -- >> Damien Cassou >> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st >> >> "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without >> losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill >> >> > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
