EBNF grammar for tabular format

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_Kr=F6ger?= <pedro.kroger@gmail.com>
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:05:47 -0700 (PDT)

          From comp.compilers
Related articles
EBNF grammar for tabular format pedro.kroger@gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_Kr=F6ger?=) (2009-07-13)
Re: EBNF grammar for tabular format bear@sonic.net (Ray) (2009-07-27)
| List of all articles for this month |
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_Kr=F6ger?= <pedro.kroger@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:05:47 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: parse, question
Posted-Date: 14 Jul 2009 09:37:26 EDT

Hi,


There's a program called humdrum that has a tabular format like:


**foo **bar
a b
a b
a b


where **foo indicates the type of data on the 1st column and **bar on
the 2nd. The format can have an infinite number of columns and many
different types of data (i.e. many **<name> things).
I'd like to know if I can describe this format using an EBNF grammar.


My impression is that I can't describe this kind of thing with an EBNF
grammar, is my assumption correct?


Pedro


Post a followup to this message

Return to the comp.compilers page.
Search the comp.compilers archives again.