I know this is old, but it has had no response, I apologize... On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Philippe forest wrote:

Hi,

Greetings, You should update your Boost, the later versions are vastly better, allow me to demonstrate: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Philippe forest wrote:

First of all I would like to state that spirit =  str_p("very") >> +ch_p(' ') >>( str_p("nice") | str_p("cool") | str_p("greate") ) >> +ch_p(' ') >> str_p("parser") ;

In modern Spirit: spirit = skip(' ')[lit("very") >> (lit("nice") | "cool" | "great") )>>"parser"] ;

So Thanks for that.

But I do face a problem. When assigning ID to nodes of the parse tree. ex: rule, parser_tag<stringID> >  String;

I've attached a sample to demonstrate the problem.

In short:

The grammar below does not produce a parse tree node with a 'stringID' when the input is a single character 'a'. As soon as I have 2 or more characters 'aa' then I get a node stringID.

        definition(          ExpressionNoStringIDGrammar const& /*self*/)        {          Char =            ch_p('a')            ;

         String =            ( +Char )            ;

         language =            String            ;        }

rule, parser_tag<charID> >         Char; rule, parser_tag<stringID> >       String; rule<ScannerT> language;

In modern Spirit, this should work fine: template<typename Iterator> class definition : grammar { definition() : definition::base_type(language) { Char = char_('a') ; String = +Char ; language = String ; } rule Char; rule String; rule language; } That will return the parsed string of a's as an std::string. Look at the new Spirit, insanely more powerful, and so much easier to use as well. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/libs/spirit/doc/html/index.html On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Philippe forest wrote:

BUT: If I remove the 'Char' parser and substitute it with ch_p('a') then it works fine , then I always get a node stringID even with a single input char.

        definition(          ExpressionNoStringIDGrammar const& /*self*/)        {          String =            ( +ch_p('a') )            ;

         language =            String            ;        }

rule, parser_tag<charID> >         Char; rule, parser_tag<stringID> >       String; rule<ScannerT> language;

Could anyone either explain me what is going on ?  - I'm I doing something wrong or is this a bug or works as designed ?