Fun..
Ok, lets answer a few points. You are of course correct that a finished solution should cater for incorrect input and act accordingly. It's also useful that the P::RD version does this without much extra effort.
And its missing from my code, though adding it wont be too much hassle, I think :) I'll go look at the errors in mine, and implement a speed improvement that occured to me while getting up (all the best ideas appear in the waking up phase, somehow..)

The second point is, that in order for incorrect data to be 'correctly' handled, one also has to define what should happen when the data is bad. So here's another challenge for you. Look at the data on castaway's scratchpad, if this sort of packet is incomplete, then it could still have complete information for some of the muds which I can use, so how about returning all the 'full' lists when possible? Though, thats now data-bound, and not just about complete structures any more.. If its not clear, the first seven entries are just a header, the first 'mud' information starts at (["Figment", and goes on until the end of the hash.

I never doubted that Parse::RecDescent was cool :) And I've got a 'Code Complete' around here somewhere, he's right too..

Oh, did you benchmark working versions of IOs and merlyns solutions?
/me goes to add some error-checking..

C.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Parsing Text into Arrays.. by castaway
in thread Parsing Text into Arrays.. by castaway

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