in reply to A Slough of ParseRecDescent Woes

Hello Ovid,

Maybe I'm not totally understanding the problem here, but are you committed to Parse::RecDescent for any reason other than it may do what you want?

If all you need to do is read in CSV files where each file contains its own arbitrary format, perhaps the AnyData module would be sufficient for your needs???

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Re: Re: A Slough of ParseRecDescent Woes
by Masem (Monsignor) on Oct 09, 2001 at 06:55 UTC
    While I agree that using Parse::RecDescent may be overkill, particularly in this day and age of XML-based file formats, it's still a good idea if you want to be a jack-of-all-trades to have understanding and ability to do grammar parsing; at some point, if you are building custom applications, you'll undoubtable come across a grammar-based format that no other parsing method would easily work with. My impression from Ovid's request was that while there were many other ways, possibly simpler, to do this, learning P::RD was a subgoal of this solution.

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