[DGD] parse_string() help

[Joe]

bart at wotf.org wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 0:45:48 -0500, aishiteru wrote
>   
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am a newbie to DGD in general and am completely out of my element 
>> in terms of regexp and parse_string(); however, I need help with a 
>> command I am making to colorize an lpc file.  For starters, I have a 
>> simple workroom.c file as follows:
>>     
>
> <snip>
>
> Looks like you are running Gurbalib?
>
>   
>> What I am trying to do is parse any of the lpc files on our mud into 
>> a colorized output for easier viewing.  For instance, in this 
>> command, I'd have the following defines:
>>     
>
> <snip> 
>
> Doing this based on (a modified version of) the grammar you posted should be
> possible, but formatting will be lost on the way, and it won't deal with
> incomplete fragments of code. Also, it regards preprocessor statements as
> whitespace.
>
> Beyond that, using an LPC grammar seems overkill, since you are interested in
> marking tokens, not in actual syntax.
>
>   
>> Any ideas on where I can go from here?  Any help would be greatly 
>> appreciated by me and the admins of my mud.  Thanks in advance and I 
>> apologize for my inexperience.
>>     
>
> Well, my first suggestion would be to try some smaller things with
> parse_string. It is a very powerful tool, but has somewhat of a steep learning
> curve, and trying to use it with a big grammar is probably not the easiest way
> to get upto speed with it. 
>
> Bart
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>   
Yes, I'm running on a modified Gurbalib.  Since, ideally, I'd like to 
maintain the format of the LPC file, or even
properly indent it when it is parsed for colors, do you have any 
suggestions?  I had done this on a TMI-2
mudlib and had used reg_assoc() to separate all the tokens.  If using an 
LPC grammar is overkill, what
would you suggest?  Again, I'm new to this and, while I think I'm bright 
enough to muddle through it,
I don't have a clue where to start.

Joseph