[ruby-talk:6446] Re: Ruby tokenizer for Ruby

Is there a parser generator available with bindings for Ruby? I'm interested
in implementing a server in Ruby for the ACAP protocol and would prefer not
to have to hand-write it.

Thanks,

David Dabbs


"Dave Thomas" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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> Charles Hixson <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> > Does anyone know of a Ruby tokenizer for Ruby?  In particular, I am
bother
> > by how to detect the boundaries of string constants and (to a much
lesser
> > extent) of regular expressions.  The only way I've been able to think of
> > would involve multiple passes throught the code on a byte-by-byte level
(in
> > which case, Ruby is probably the wrong language to write it in).
>
> Have a look at IRB - it have a Ruby lexical analyzer.
>
> Dave
>