Re: Search engine language parser

Marc Tardif <intmktg@Gloria.CAM.ORG>
27 Jul 2000 21:32:12 -0400

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From: Marc Tardif <intmktg@Gloria.CAM.ORG>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 27 Jul 2000 21:32:12 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 00-07-029
Keywords: parse

> My boss has me building a search engine. No problem, I've already got
> most of the basic constructs for the various levels of the opperation
> figured out. What I'm sticking on is how to go about defining a set
> of logical rules to apply to a search. That is, how to define a query
> structure. Once I have a set of rules, I can parse whatever I get just
> fine, writing parsers is most of what I do for a living.


Other than not using parentheses, how is your question different than
using the yacc equivalent to:


expression: expression 'or' expression {}
            | expression 'and' expression {}
            | '(' expression ')' {}
            ; /* well, more or less, but you get the idea */


Or is the fact your allowing not to use parentheses the root of your
problem, trying to write precedence rules to interpret whatever the user
is trying to convey?


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