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Re: How to scan Java source texts?

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  Re: How to scan Java source texts? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-06-11 12:55 -0700

#24363 — Re: How to scan Java source texts?

On 6/11/2013 11:54 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>> I am able to write a scanner for Java myself, but this would
>> take days. So I would like to shortcut it by using a Java SE
>> (with JDK) call. (I would not like to use a third-party
>
>    It might not be easy to get this right. For example, a


No it's not.  I recommend a third party library.  Antlr has a Java 
syntax already worked out.  There's also other dedicated Java parsers.

Note you're talking about two things here.  Lexing and parsing.  A lexer 
breaks text up into tokens, a parser decides how to interpret the 
result.  Parsers traditionally have a lot more contextual information, 
whereas lexers are just simpler state machines that break up text.

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