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Re: Status

Peter Keller (keller@ebi.ac.uk)
Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:29:21 +0000 (GMT) 

To answer your PS:

> P.S. For our previous class we used bison++/flex++ to parse the cif file.  Are
> their any other better ways/tools one can use to write a cif parser?

I'm a great fan of ANTLR (formerly PCCTS) for this kind of work. I used
PCCTS v1.33 to write a restricted STAR file parser a while back. I'm
using Berkley yacc for another piece of work at the moment, and I keep
wishing that I was using PCCTS..... See http://www.antlr.org/ for
pointers to ANTLR resources, including the newsgroup.

PRECCX is also well worth checking out, particularly if you are a fan of
literate programming. See
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/redo/precc.html. 

Have fun,
Peter.

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