NAME

Parse::Highlife - Perl extension for grammar based parsing and transformation of data.

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
 use Parse::Highlife;
   
 # define grammar (grammar for DEC format as an example)
my $grammar = q{
        space ignored: /\s\n\r\t+/;
        multiline-comment ignored: "/*" .. "*/";
        singleline-comment ignored: /\#[^\n\r]*/;
        file: { declaration 0..* };     
                declaration: [ "@" identifier ] literal;
                        literal: < map string real number identifier >;
                                map: [ symbol ] "[" { pair 0..* } "]";
                                        pair: [ symbol ":" ] declaration;
                                string: < double-quoted-string single-quoted-string >;
                                        double-quoted-string: '"' .. '"';
                                        single-quoted-string: "'" .. "'";
                                real: /\d+\.\d+/;
                                number: /\d+/;
                                identifier: symbol { "." symbol 0..* };
                                        symbol: /[\w\d]+(\-[\w\d]+)*/;
};
   
# setup compiler
my $compiler = Parse::Highlife -> Compiler;
$compiler->grammar( $Grammar );
$compiler->toprule( -name => 'file' );
   
# compile document
$compiler -> compile( 'myfile.txt' );
            
          

DESCRIPTION

Parse::Highlife is used to parse and transform string data. You can define a grammar and a tokenizer, parser and transformer are generated. By defining transformers for some you non-terminals.

This documentation is incomplete and will be expanded soon.

EXPORT

coming soon.

SEE ALSO

None.

AUTHOR

Tom Kirchner, <tom@kirchner.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Tom Kirchner

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.14.2 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.