Improving the pseudo-ini parser
Monday, August 23, 2010 1:26:11 PM
In a previous article I described how to create a parser for a pseudo-INI file. The grammar presented in the post is unfortunately unable to parse inline comments correctly.I asked for ways to improve it, both on perlmonks and on IRC. After some testing it turns out that a slight change is enough: the first line of the grammar should be changed to:
AsIni: <skip: qr{\s*(;[^\n]*\n\s*)?}s> Line(s?) /\Z/
Unfortunately, this won't print the skipped content (as CommentLine) does. From the answers I had it's not quite clear if this is actually possible with Parse::RecDescent. Anyway, I am satisfied with the result so far






