[vox-tech] Simple fixed field parsing language (DSL)

[Harold Lee]

This makes a really cool sample project for how to use ANTLR :-)

These days on the JVM I'd favor Scala parser combinators. Here's a great
example of solving a similar problem (CSV) with those:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5063022/use-scala-parser-combinator-to-parse-csv-files


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:

> I created a simple language inspired by the picture format in COBOL.
>
> https://github.com/brieweb/fixedfield.git
>
> In order to run it, you need Maven 3 and Java 6.
>
> brian
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> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
>
> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> The 1980 Turing award lecture
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