From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T22:38:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing Ruby

Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@REMOVEacm.org> writes:

> REXML parses Ruby? I took it to be an XML parser. I want to parse
> Ruby code (a little bit).

RDoc has a full Ruby lexer (stolen from irb) and parses enough Ruby to
extract classes, methods, attrs, etc. The parser ain't pretty, as it
was cobbled together from a number of sources. I'm slowly refactoring
it, but perhaps it'll do what you want.



Dave