[antlr-interest] parsing rules

[Jim Idle]

AWK would be better then.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of George Soom
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 12:19 AM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] parsing rules
> 
> 
> 
> Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic.net> wrote on 28 May 2010, 04:25 PM:
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] parsing rules
> >On Wednesday May 26 2010, George Soom wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have to rewrite several files with mathematical text in them. Text
> >> substitutions are really simple (e.g. 'a=4' -> 'a:=4;' and similar).
> >> Input is in form:
> >> ----
> >> a=4
> >> b=3
> >> draw(a)
> >> draw(b)
> >> ----
> >>
> >> Needed output
> >> -----
> >> a:=4;
> >> b:=3;
> >> draw(a, "constant arguments")
> >> draw(b, "constant arguments")
> >> ----
> >
> >Why don't you just use sed?
> >
> >
> >Randall Schulz
> 
> This process is using sed for several years. But as input syntax is
> constantly changing, managing all these ~100line sed scripts is quite a
> mess.
> 
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