Call for standards: EPROM/cal editing software

[Ludis Langens]

Warren Bowley wrote:
> 
> b)      from a programming language standpoint, what is the easiest
>         and most efficient way of reading/writing the definition
>         files.
> 
> in my case i'm more concerned with b) as i'm just starting to
> write the program.  since i'm using vb6 i can use windoze built-in
> standards to read .ini files which wouldn't support this format.
> if i knew how to/were using c/c++/java, i'm sure it wouldn't
> be much of a problem.

Get a book about writing compilers.  Read the chapters about parsing and
lexing.  You'll want to use tools with names such as lexx, yacc, and bison.

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Ludis Langens                               ludis (at) cruzers (dot) com
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