Yarden Katz  <katz@underlevel.net> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > Yup. Halfway down this page <URL:http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html>
| > one sees:
| >
| > 	(Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know,
| > 	I'll use regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems.)
| 
| What are some obvious alternatives to regexps other than a META
| parser, like the ones introduced in the Baker papers?
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As mentioned elsewhere in the group recently, quite often
simple ad-hoc recursive descent parsers are best, if the
language being parsed is anywhere near being LL(1). [Most
things with some kind of keywords in front are, or can be
faked into being with some fixups behind the scenes...]


-Rob

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