Lars Wilhelmsen

In the first installment of this series we took a look at the basic grammar for parsing the command line with MGrammar. In this part I’ll show you how we can load in a compiled version of the MGrammar and parse the input (i.e. the command line) to produce a valid MGraph that we in [...]

Let’s take a look at how we can use MGrammar to create a mini-DSL for a language most developers knows quite well; command line arguments. Most applications that accepts arguments on the command line in Windows (or in Linux/Un*x for that matter) is on the form: Application.exe /a /b 123 /c “some input string goes [...]