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

[Harold Lee]

The other really cool aspect is that your ANTLR parser is parsing the
format.txt in order to build a parser for sample.dat.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Harold Lee <harold at hotelling.net> wrote:

> 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
>> --
>> Brian Lavender
>> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>>
>> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
>> 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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