Regular Expressions

[jcfuller]

Just curious if any of the authors make use of a regular expression library for parsing in their interpreters, compilers, or translators?

James

[JRS]

I use the ScriptBasic Regular Expression extension module from time to time. Are you thinking of creating a library?

[jcfuller]

I use the ScriptBasic Regular Expression extension module from time to time. Are you thinking of creating a library?

No.
I rephrased my question!

James

[rdc]

Just curious if any of the authors make use of a regular expression library for parsing in their interpreters, compilers, or translators?

James

Lex uses regular expressions to parse the syntax, and I am sure most commercial use something similar to Lex. Most home-brew systems I have seen don't.

[JRS]

James,

It might be worth looking at the ScriptBasic's parser and instead of creating a token, increment the C(++) run time function reference count.

[Steve A.]

Just curious if any of the authors make use of a regular expression library for parsing in their interpreters, compilers, or translators?

I do not, in Bxbasic.
My parser is entirely "home spun".

In years past, I played around (extensively) with the Perl Regex library and found it quite amusing to say the least.
I tinkered with the idea of incorporating it into Bxbasic, but, never got around to it.
For the lay-person, Regex can appear very complex, (at first).

[Pjot]

Yes, I do use the "POSIX Extended Regular Expressions" which comes with the C library in <regex.h>. See also 'man regex' or this link.

Peter