how to do a dynamic parser in X3?
Richard <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:48:39 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.general |
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| Organization | multi-cellular, biological |
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Hi,
So the symbols parser is an example of a dynamic parser in X3. I am trying to
write a parser for a GIF image file. A GIF file is a series of chunks. Chunks
are prefixed with a length indicating the number of bytes in the chunk. Many
binary formats have the length of a binary block encoded in the stream followed
by <length> bytes (or words or whatever unit) representing the block.
How do we parse this using X3 spirit?
Do we use a success handler for the length to record it in the context and then
somehow use a repeat parser that grabs the repeat count from the context?
What, exactly, does that look like?
I'm hoping to figure this out in time for a presentation on X3 to Utah C++
Programmers on Sept. 13th.
Thanks,
-- Richard
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