From: Catalin Tilimpea <ctilimpea@...>
Date: 2009-07-03T18:49:16+09:00
Subject: Parsing lua with Ruby

Im interested in parsing a text file that has a very specific, yet
somewhat complicated (for me) format. Sample attached. Looks something
like this:

BeanCounterDB = {
  ["settings"] = {
    ["profile.Default"] = {
      ["columnsortcurSort"] = 12,
      ["util.beancounter.mailrecolor"] = "both",
      ["columnsortcurDir"] = -1,
      ["configator.left"] = 282.666712026266,
      ["configator.top"] = 651.6666718914553,
    },


The file contains a hierarchy of keys and values. Keys look like
"["string"]". Values are assigned by "=". Values can be "{}" or
"<string>", or <number> or lists of keys/values assignments separated by
"," and enclosed by "{" and "}" respectively.

This is all very much like xml, just that not sufficiently alike to just
make search and replace and then use an xml parser.

Anyone has any suggestions/pointers what I should do or where I should
look to be able to obtain some sort of datastructure (array of objects,
lists etc.) representing the data in such a file?

Thanks!

NOTE: Attachment contains more data than I put in the post, but still
not a full file, as the only such full file I have is rather large.

Attachments:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/3865/bcnt.txt

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