Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars A Recursive Descent into Parsing /

• Main Author: Lenz, Moritz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2017.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer Science.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Programming Techniques.; Open Source.

Write good regexes and parsers with the Perl 6 programming language. You’ll see how regexes are used for searching, parsing, and validation: in particular the grammar extension makes them uniquely suitable for parsing, the main focus of this book. Written by Perl 6 expert Moritz Lenz, a core contrib...

Table of Contents:

• 1. What are Regexes and Grammars?
• 2. Getting Started with Perl 6
• 3. Building Blocks of Regexes
• 4. Regexes and Perl 6 Code
• 5. Extracting Data from Regex Matches
• 6. Regex Mechanics
• 7. Regex Techniques
• 8. Reusing and Composing Regexes
• 9. Parsing With Grammars
• 10. Extracting Data From Matches
• 11. Generating Good Parse Error Messages
• 12. Unicode and Natural Language
• 13. Case Studies.