[VPM] Meeting?

[Peter Scott]

At 05:08 PM 5/7/2003 -0700, Nathanael Kuipers wrote:
>Hesitantly, I'm willing to be target practice for "writing a decent parser
>module in Perl".

Good with me.

>I recently wrote a parser called BIO::vmatchIO.  It parses
>non-XML flatfiles with some rather convoluted output formats.  You can find
>the source and html-ized POD on my website
>(http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~nkuipers/nkuipers.html) under "My Modules".  I'd
>appreciate the inevitable criticism and since the process and thought 
>involved
>in writing robust parsers is a daunting task, this could yield some valuable
>points too.  Another challenging option would be to construct the framework
>for re-implementing the parser using CPAN modules...I couldn't find any but I
>didn't look that hard and also I thought it would be a good experience 
>to roll
>my own.  For example would Parse::RecDescent be appropriate?

For parsing anything that there isn't an existing module for, I'd say yes.
-- 
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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