Re: [boost] Parsing commands with Spirit

Subject: Re: [boost] Parsing commands with Spirit
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-02 10:49:55

edouard_at_[hidden] wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 07:13:27 -0600, "Hartmut Kaiser"
> <hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> >     typedef iterator_range<char const*> range_type;
> >     typedef std::pair<range_type, range_type> result_type;
> >     rule<char const*, result_type()> r =
> >         "command1" >> raw[+(!lit("separator") >> char_)] >>
> "separator"
> >>
> >         "command2" >> raw[+alnum];
> >
> Then I have an additional question, if you mind, as I said the second
> problem we have is that my command parameter may contain the
> separator, we get around this by parsing right to left. This is not
> something we can do
> much about it, unless we encode all the commands parameters which is a
> thing we cannot realistically do.
>
> Let me give you an example:
>
> command1/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd
>
> We currently extract "aaa/bbb/ccc" and "ddd".
>
> The way I want to do this in Spirit is extract "aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd" and
> manually extract "ddd" from it. The other possibility is to
> extract "aaa", "bbb", "ccc" and "ddd" and since I have a pair of
> pointers just merge the pair "aaa" => "ccc".

If those delimiters appear as shown, why not parse for them?

   component = +(~ch_p('/'))
   command1 =
      "command1/"
      >> component // aaa
      >> '/'
      >> component // bbb
      >> '/'
      >> component // ccc
      >> '/'
      >> component // ddd

I've not attached any semantic actions, but that should be a fairly easy application of what Hartmut showed already.  You'd only need the start of what matches the first component (sub)rule and the end of what matches the third one, to span "aaa/bbb/ccc," of course.

Another approach is to allow for the delimiter in the middle, but not the end, though you need to match EOL or something to signal the end of the command:

   "command1/" >> +(alpha_p | '/') >> '/' >> +alpha_p >> eol_p

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Rob Stewart                           robert.stewart_at_[hidden]
Software Engineer, Core Software      using std::disclaimer;
Susquehanna International Group, LLP  http://www.sig.com

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