[boost] [Fwd: Re: boost spirit for antlr for qif parse?]

From: Larry Evans (jcampbell3_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-20 15:43:08

I was wondering if the spirit experts could provide
any more justifcation of using spirit to parse qif
files for gnucash?


attached mail follows:

Bill Gribble wrote:

>On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 14:28, Larry Evans wrote:
>  
>
[snip]

>by other stuff".  The interpretation of number and date fields, in
>particular, is not only dependent on what has come before it in the
>file, but also on what comes *after* it in the file, which is where most
>parsers will just throw up their hands. 
>  
>
But not spirit since it has infinite lookahead and "dynamic parsing".
Please see the link to boost mail-list in my reply to cbbrowne.

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