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Should I use a formal grammar for my interpreted scripting language
I have a scripting engine I just published as an open source project. It's been sitting on my harddrive waiting for about a year. My engine of course isn't complete in any way, but it does work for ...
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Parsing multiple file formats/protocols
We are starting a project where we will need to write parsers for a bunch of binary file formats, each of them representing very similar data (time-value series from different measurement devices).
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What are the arguments against parsing the Cthulhu way?
I have been assigned the task of implementing a Domain Specific Language for a tool that may become quite important for the company. The language is simple but not trivial, it already allows nested ...
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Techniques for parsing XML
I've always found XML somewhat cumbersome to process. I'm not talking about implementing an XML parser: I'm talking about using an existing stream-based parser, like a SAX parser, which processes the ...
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What would happen if you defined your system's CSV delimiter as being a quotation mark?
Title says it all. If the CSV's system delimiter was " (as opposed to a comma or pipe or other common alternatives), how would anything deal with it?
The crux of the matter is of course that by ...
