From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-14T09:47:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing parsers?

Dňa Utorok 14 Február 2006 00:59 Paatsch, Bernd napísal:
> Hello,
>
> I got this great task assigned to write a parser and looking at the files
> to parse is not very trivial. Does anybody know where to find a website
> that would explain steps and pitfalls to avoid writing a parser?
> Any suggestion/help in is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Bernd

http://epaperpress.com/lexandyacc/ seems to be a useful resource, provided you 
already know some theory behind formal grammars and such. The two tools and 
their derivatives are pretty much the open source standard for writing 
parsers. I believe there are Ruby bindings / variants of both.

ANTLR is also somewhat used, but you're probably looking at Java there.

David Vallner