Re: [boost] Spirit Question

From: Joel de Guzman (djowel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-21 14:00:16

Drazen DOTLIC <Drazen.Dotlic_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> I want to parse "," separated lists of strings.
>> 
>> I have:
>> 
>>      char const*                 plist_wo_item = "x, y, z";
>> [rest snipped]
> 
> With the risk of stating the obvious, why don't you use
> boost::tokenizer? Unless you want to do something else with the values
> separated by ',', spirit looks like a major overkill...

Because 1) people often simplify their question to make things clear.
2) often, the grammar gets a lot more complicated.

Cheers,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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