Re: Command Line Interpreter

> What I need is a way to implement an interpreter that will read actions
> from a command line and process them. The actions never run over
> several lines.


> [Sounds like another job for TCL. -John]


Indeed. Sounds like you are more interested in getting the job done
than in learning parsing techniques. If this assumption is correct,
you might also think about implementing the interpreter as an AWK
script:


/^command1/ { process_cmd1() }
/^command2/ { process_cmd2() }
# ...


function process_cmd1() {
    # $0 contains the whole line to be processed.
    # $1 contains the first token.
    # $n contains the nth token.
}


function process_cmd2() {
    # ...
}




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