Help with Regex (was Re: Switch, Case and wild-cards?)

[Robert Sneidar]

Depends on the language. I tried making a Foxpro to Livecode parser once. I encountered situations where there was no good way to accomplish the translation. Also there are commands and functions in each language that have no equivalent in the other, and only another custom or function could accomplish the task. I gave up on it as either impossible, or else impractical. SQL is something that is quite parseable in simpler forms. Parsing complex joins would require a genius far beyond my paltry skills. If you have a good SQL parser that might be something you could make into a plugin. 

Bob


On Dec 29, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Thanks Mark, more good resources.
> 
> A question in the back of my mind now that I know enough about regexp to be
> dangerous.  Is parsing a language something that can be done with regular
> expressions?  I have a program in which I jumped though all sorts of hoops
> to parse SQL statements.  It works quite well but maintaining it is a pain.
> It feels like I could use regexps to separate the various "clauses" of a
> command, followed by other regexps to parse those clauses depending on type.
> 
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Mark Laffoon <mark.laffoon at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I've always found RegExhibit from
>> http://roger-jolly.nl/software/#regexhibithelpful.
>> Also, for reference material,  http://www.regular-expressions.info/ has
>> been of great help.
>> 
>> Just my 2 cents.
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
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