What is parsing?

Question

Parsing is something I come across a lot in development, but as a junior it is one of those things I assume I will get the hang of at some point, when it is needed. In my cu

Answer 1

In computer science and linguistics, parsing, or, more formally, syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing a text, made of a sequence of tokens (for example, words), to determine its grammatical structure with respect to a given (more or less) formal grammar.

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Answer 2

Don't attempt to write anything but a trivial parser yourself. There are good tools for this use ANTLR and bison are two I can think of.

If you use the tools you'll be able to ask for help when you hit a problem.

cheers, Martin.