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INTRODUCTION

Parslet makes developing complex parsers easy. It does so by

* providing the best <b>error reporting</b> possible
* <b>not generating</b> reams of code for you to debug

Parslet takes the long way around to make <b>your job</b> easier. It allows
for incremental language construction. Often, you start out small,
implementing the atoms of your language first; _parslet_ takes pride in making
this possible.

Eager to try this out? Please see the associated web site:
http://kschiess.github.com/parslet

SYNOPSIS

  require 'parslet'
  include Parslet

  # Constructs a parser using a Parser Expression Grammar like DSL: 
  parser =  str('"') >> 
            (
              str('\\') >> any |
              str('"').absnt? >> any
            ).repeat.as(:string) >> 
            str('"')
  
  # Parse the string and capture parts of the interpretation (:string above)        
  tree = parser.parse('"This is a \\"String\\" in which you can escape stuff"')

  tree # => {:string=>"This is a \\\"String\\\" in which you can escape stuff"}

  # Here's how you can grab results from that tree:

  transform = Parslet::Transform.new do
    rule(:string => simple(:x)) { 
      puts "String contents: #{x}" }
  end
  transform.apply(tree)

COMPATIBILITY

This library should work with most rubies. I've tested it with MRI 1.8 
(except 1.8.6), 1.9, rbx-head, jruby. Please report as a bug if you encounter 
issues.

Note that due to Ruby 1.8 internals, Unicode parsing is not supported on that 
version. 

STATUS 

At version 1.2.1 - See HISTORY.txt for changes.

(c) 2010 Kaspar Schiess

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A small PEG based parser library. See the Hacking page in the Wiki as well.

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