From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-06-11T14:00:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to parse Ruby code?

On Jun 10, 2006, at 8:45 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Esteban Manchado [iso-8859-1] Vel�zquez wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 04:15:15AM +0900, Jeff Cohen wrote:
>>> I'm trying to parse some Ruby code from C#... I just want to  
>>> scrape out
>>> the class/module names and the methods defined for each.
>>> [...]
>>> Some googling didn't reveal much to me, but I'm hoping someone  
>>> will know
>>> of a well-known algorithm or regular expressions that will help  
>>> me out?
>>
>>    Well, not an algorithm, but perhaps you can learn from the  
>> source of the
>> Ruby programs that do syntax highlighting to Ruby (see the thread  
>> "Colored
>> syntax output" started by Robert MannI)...
>>
>>    HTH,
>
> check out the rdoc source.

Which I believe was derived from irb.

There's also ParseTree, but I believe it is unsuitable for your problem.

Check out the grammarians list:

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygrammar-grammarians

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