I am a new Parsec user, and having some trouble with a relatively simple parser.
The grammar I want to parse contains tags (not html) marked by angle brackets (e.g., "<some tag>"), with arbitrary text (no angle brackets allowed) optionally in between tags. Tags may not nest, but the input must begin and end with a tag. Whitespace may occur anywhere (beginning/end of input, inside/between tags, etc.), and is optional. I think my problem may be a lack of using "try", but I'm not sure where. At runtime I get: Error parsing file: "...\sampleTaggedContent.txt" (line 4, column 1): unexpected end of input expecting "<" The input was: <tag1>stuff<tag 2> more stuff < tag 3 > even more <lastTag> The code is below. (I'm using Parsec-2.1.0.1.) I don't really want to return anything meaningful yet; just parse okay. Any advice about the error (or how to simplify or improve the code) would be appreciated. Thanks much, -- Peter > -- Parsers: > taggedContent = do > optionalWhiteSpace > aTag > many tagOrContent > aTag > eof > return "Parse complete." > > tagOrContent = aTag <|> someContent <?> "tagOrContent" > > aTag = do > tagBegin > xs <- many (noneOf [tagEndChar]) > tagEnd > optionalWhiteSpace > return () > > someContent = do > manyTill anyChar tagBegin > return () > > optionalWhiteSpace = spaces -- i.e., any of " \v\f\t\r\n" > tagBegin = char tagBeginChar > tagEnd = char tagEndChar > > -- Etc: > tagBeginChar = '<' > tagEndChar = '>' -------- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe