Re: LEX/YACC EDI Translator?

cfc@world.std.com (Chris F Clark)
25 May 1997 13:40:44 -0400

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From: cfc@world.std.com (Chris F Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 25 May 1997 13:40:44 -0400
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: 97-05-243
Keywords: parse, lex, yacc

> I'm wondering if the Lex/Yacc tools can be used to write an
> Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) translator? Eventually the
> translation maps could be changed per each trading partners
> specification on the fly and hence, the parsing and translation with
> associated errors would change correspondingly.


Definitely a straight-forward parsing task. The description I elided
suggests that a parser which supports regular expressions might make
the task easier. There are several candidates in that area that I am
aware of (and probably even more that I'm not), such as Yacc++, Visual
Parse++, and PCCTS. I have heard of similar tasks (for example,
networking protocols) successfully being attacked as parsing problems.


-Chris


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