This class explores the advanced features of the Regexp::Grammars module and demonstrates the wide range of powerful parsing techniques the module makes possible.
Topics covered include:
- Rematching parsed data
- Balanced delimiter matching within data
- Aliasing literals
- Extracting location data within a match
- Indexes
- Line counts
- Passing location information to error messages
- Message localization within a parser
- Localized whitespace skipping within rules
- Parametric subrules
- Accessing parameters
- Matching subrule parameters as subpatterns
- Matching subrule parameters as literals
- Matching subrule parameters as balanced delimiters
- Table-based matching with custom key patterns
- Subrule stubbing
The Regexp::Grammars module is the successor to the Parse::RecDescent module. It offers most of the same features, with important extra capacities such as full backtracking support whilst parsing, as well as grammar inheritance (as in Perl 6).
1 day seminar
Perl programmers who are already familiar with the basics of grammar-based parsing and with the Regexp::Grammars module. The techniques presented are not restricted to the specific applications mentioned, and will be useful to anyone who needs to process complex structured input of any kind.