[ale] Complex Parsing

[Benjamin Dixon]

Not that I'm an expert in the field of parsing by any means, but I've done
enough compiler and database work to know it can get very complicated very
quickly. What exactly is the scope of this program? Are you planning on
having tons of different "plain language" commands? If so, you might want
to look into a scanner/parser setup. Something like lex and yacc... or
these days I guess flex and bison. Depending on the complexity, lifespan,
and future plans for enhancements to the program, it'd probably be a good
choice.

Ben

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I'm using C.  Everything is in the argv array.
> 
> I can use a serious of strcmp()'s to see is one argv[X] = "home".  Then
> set argv[x+1] as the argument.
> 
> I'm creating a config program the is plain language based.  I can use
> getopt.  Getopt requires tokens.  My tokes would be "home" etc..
> 
> Chris
> 
> 


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