[ Scripted Compiler :: aged Discussions]
Comments on parsing C and other languages. The text processing capabilities of scripting languages can make this part easier as well. string map, regsub, split, etc. are powerful tools. Use the first, for example to the detect the various types of tokens and insert marker characters for separation. After this pre-tokenization phase we can listify the string into the token-list via split. Easy, fast, ... This takes care of the lexer. Parsing ... Yeti, or similar - AK.
I've never really put much time in learning all that arcana... especially since Tcl makes it dead easy to write config files as Tcl ;) Use the source Luke ;) - Ro
Well, the comment above are not about config-files, but the scripted compiler for C, etc. Also useful in Tools like Source Navigator which extract xref information out of sources. - AK.