Re: Rexx-like parsing in Lua

[sergei karhof <karhof21@...>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Joseph Stewart
<joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Serg,
>
> Can you give us a few links to look at that describe what you're talking
> about... I'm intrigued!
>
> -joe


Basically, Rexx parsing is about chopping up strings into chunks,
according to user-defined criteria, and serially assigning them to
variables. This is very neat, because you can specify the context
around the target sub-string(s) you seek to isolate, via a template.

As for the links:

http://www.markcrocker.com/rexxtipsntricks/rxtt28.2.0224.html
A good introduction

http://www.kilowattsoftware.com/tutorial/rexx/parseTutorial.htm

http://www.danofsteel.com/Parser/
A Perl implementation of Rexx parsing

Hope this helps.