[HN Gopher] Show HN: Online Interactive Parser
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       Show HN: Online Interactive Parser
        
       Author : fjfaase
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-03-16 12:01 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | hardmath123 wrote:
       | You might also like the nearley playground, which lets you write
       | a grammar in BNF and see all possible parsings of an input. You
       | can even press a button and generate a random string that matches
       | your grammar! https://omrelli.ug/nearley-playground/
        
       | avmich wrote:
       | Interesting.
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       | How to specify in a grammar that a double quote, " , should
       | appear somewhere in the input?
        
         | fjfaase wrote:
         | Author here: That is indeed not possible. One would expect that
         | using "\"" would define a literal for a double quote, but the
         | parser does not interpret the back-slash and instead expect \"
         | in the input. Please note that this online interactive parser
         | is not intended to support all kind of lexical elements that
         | occur in various programming languages. Please follow the
         | pointers to IParse and RawParser for solutions that offer more
         | possibilities.
        
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