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How to write a parser in C?

I need to write a parser for a simple web configuration file. Which functional program would be a good option, ML or Haskell?

  • Please note I am new to both of them.

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    I've found parser combinators in Haskell to be easier than the alternatives in the MLs. But really, don't.  Use Yaml.  Unless your configuration syntax is so onerous that you actually need to hack your own parser, chances are you'd just implement something sorta-like-yaml-but-worse anyway.  At least, that's how it usually goes.

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I'm curious about the need to write a parser too. Quite a few people have done stuff like this by writing what are in effect subsets of Python. Just a few assignments, say, with a procedure call.

Bill Bell

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