Resending that message, accidently sent it to eric directly, so again: On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 09:50:37AM -0700, Eric Niebler <eric@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
About a year ago, Hartmut Kaiser wrote an xpressive_p() parser for Spirit which wrapped an xpressive regex. It worked a bit like the current regex_p parser. Would that meet your needs? I don't know what became of it. Perhaps Hartmut knows.
Thats also an interesting usage of xpressive. I dont have an acute need for scanners, my parsing needs are currently focused on biological formats which are just database dumps most of the time. So I have to work on character level most of the time. But provided that I work on parsing a scripting language, or rather a language which is intended for parsing by software, I would try to implement a lexer first. And use that lexer as scanner object in spirit. I think it is a bit strangely that there are several generic C++ replacements for yacc/bison, but nothing similar to lex/flex, that can be intergrated into spirit (integrated as scanner that is). Andreas Pokorny