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Adventures in parsing
I’ve long wanted to dip my toes in the Parsec water. I’ve made some attempts before, but always stumbled on something that put me in the doldrums for so long that I managed to repress all memories of...
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More adventures in parsing
I received an interesting comment from Conal Elliott on my previous post on parsing. I have to admit I wasn’t sure I understood him at first, I’m still not sure I do, but I think I have an idea of what...
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I got a great many comments, at least by my standards, on my earlier two posts on parsing in Haskell. Especially on the latest one. Conal posted a comment on the first pointing me towards liftM and its...
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I received a few comments on part 3 of this little mini-series and I just wanted to address them. While doing this I still want the main functions of the parser parseXxx to read like the maps file...
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Recently I began writing a tool to scrape some information off a web site for some off-line processing. After writing up the basics using TagSoup I showed what I had to a colleague. His first comment...
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