On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:45 AM, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> depends on your needs. I never used regex before , pharo regex was my > first. I used on a specific case that was quite simple. I love its > simplicity and its extremely compact syntax. Perfect fit for my needs, one > very happy customer :) > > I think it depends on complexity of the parsing and how you like to work, > if you have a simple problem and want a compact syntax, nothing can beat > regex. At least taking account SmaCC and PettitParser. When I need more > complex parsing with nested syntax, SmaCC made a lot more sense. > PetitParser was great for what I wanted to do: parse SNMP results. What was great was the ability to make one "generic" grammar and subclass it with specific ones. I used Regex at first to do the job but it turned into an unholy mess (not that it couldn't parse what I needed) and PetitParser was there. No SmaCC usage so far, so can't comment there. Phil > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Martin Bähr < > mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > >> Excerpts from stepharo's message of 2015-04-01 23:00:11 +0200: >> > May be this was a mistake to get regexp. >> >> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use >> regular >> expressions." Now they have two problems. >> (jwz) >> >> >
