From: "Marcel Molina Jr." Date: 2007-06-29T15:01:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Where to start in parsing? On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:55:02PM +0900, Hakusa@gmail.com wrote: > I haven't programmed in a while, but I want to get back with doing > some parsing for a text adventure I want to make. I know it's not > Ruby's specialty, but it's nice to try and learn how to do something > like this in a language that has good string support. > > So I want to start learning to parse, so naturally I go to Goolge. But > of course, I got a lot of XML and stuff like that and that's really > not what I'm looking for (I think). So where do I start? I think I've > heard that regex is the modern parsing algorithm. Or would a different > library be more helpful for me right now? Check out Dhaka: http://dhaka.rubyforge.org/ It starts with simple examples and goes all the way up to a non trivial language. marcel -- Marcel Molina Jr.