Ubuntu Manpage: Pegex::Parser - Pegex Parser Runtime

NAME

       Pegex::Parser - Pegex Parser Runtime

SYNOPSIS

           use Pegex::Parser;
           use SomeGrammarClass;
           use SomeReceiverClass;

           my $parser = Pegex::Parser->new(
               grammar => SomeGrammarClass->new,
               receiver => SomeReceiverClass->new,
           );

           my $result = $parser->parse($SomeInputText);

DESCRIPTION

       Pegex::Parser is the Pegex component that provides the parsing engine runtime. It requires
       a Grammar object and a Receiver object. It's "parse()" method takes an input that is
       expected to be matched by the grammar, and applies the grammar rules to the input. As the
       grammar is applied, the receiver is notified of matches. The receiver is free to do
       whatever it wishes, but often times it builds the data into a structure that is commonly
       known as a Parse Tree.

       When the parse method is complete it returns whatever object the receiver has provided as
       the final result. If the grammar fails to match the input along the way, the parse method
       will throw an error with much information about the failure.

ATTRIBUTES

       The Pegex::Parser "new" object constructor takes these attributes:

       "grammar"
           A Pegex::Grammar object. Required.

       "receiver"
           A Pegex::Receiver object.

       "debug"
           Boolean. Turn on debugging. Default false.

       "recursion_limit"
           Integer. Recursion level to terminate on. Default 0 (off).

       "recursion_warn_limit"
           Integer. Recursion level to warn on. Default 0 (off).

       "iteration_limit"
           Integer. Number of matches to try before terminating. Default 0 (off).

DEBUGGING

Pegex::Parser currently has 4 settings that are useful for debugging. These can be set as
Pegex::Parser object attributes, global variables or environment variables:

"debug" or $Pegex::Parser::Debug or $ENV{PERL_PEGEX_DEBUG}
If set to a true value, it enables very useful trace messages for every internal match
operation.

"recursion_limit" or "Pegex::Parser::RecursionLimit" or $ENV{PERL_PEGEX_RECURSION_LIMIT}
If set to a number greater than 0, Pegex::Parser will terminate after that recursion
level number is reached.

"recursion_warn_limit" or "Pegex::Parser::RecursionWarnLimit" or
$ENV{PERL_PEGEX_RECURSION_WARN_LIMIT}
If set to a number greater than 0, Pegex::Parser will issue a warning every time that
recursion level number is reached.

"iteration_limit" or "Pegex::Parser::IterationLimit" or $ENV{PERL_PEGEX_ITERATION_LIMIT}
If set to a number greater than 0, Pegex::Parser will terminate after that number of
matches has been attempted.

"debug_indent" or $Pegex::Parser::DebugIndent or $ENV{PERL_PEGEX_DEBUG_INDENT}
Tells the parser how many spaces should be used for indenting debugging output.
Default is 1.

"debug_color" or $Pegex::Parser::DebugColor or $ENV{PERL_PEGEX_DEBUG_COLOR}
If enabled, it will color "got" and "not" events in the debugging output
("bright_green" and "bright_red" respectively). Color will be enabled by default for
debugging. It requires Term::ANSIColor.

"always" or 1
Color is enabled.

"auto"
Color is enabled when STDERR is a tty.

"never" or 0
Color is disabled.

You can configure the specific colors used by appending them like this:

PERL_PEGEX_DEBUG_COLOR='always, cyan bold, black on_yellow'

For available colors, see Term::ANSIColor

Note: Using these variables incurs a slight performance hit, but if you don't
use them all the debugging code is optimized away.

AUTHOR

       Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2010-2020. Ingy döt Net.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>