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Parse::RecDescent grammar not working as expected


All I managed to get working is STRING, PARAMS, VARIABLE and FUNCNAME There seems to be a problem with FUNCTION, but I just can't see it.

use strict;
use Parse::RecDescent;

$::RD_ERRORS = 1; # Make sure the parser dies when it encounters an error
$::RD_WARN   = 1; # Enable warnings. This will warn on unused rules &c.
$::RD_HINT   = 1; # Give out hints to help fix problems.

my $grammar = <<'_GRAMMAR_';
            SCRIPT : INSTRUCTION(s /;/)

            INSTRUCTION: FUNCTION | VARIABLE "=" FUNCTION

            FUNCTION : FUNCNAME "[" PARAMETERS "]"

            FUNCNAME : "print" | "add2" | "save" # ok

            PARAMETERS : STRING | STRING /\s*\,\s*/ PARAMETERS # ok

            VARIABLE : /\w[A-Za-z-0-9]{0,10}/i # ok

            STRING : /'(?:[^'\\]|\\.)*'/ # ok
    _GRAMMAR_
my $parser2 = Parse::RecDescent->new($grammar);
#i test every rule here
print "STRING OK\n" if $parser2->STRING("'asd'");
print "PARAMS OK\n" if $parser2->PARAMETERS("'asd','XCV','vfgdg'");
print "SCRIPT OK\n" if $parser2->SCRIPT(q(print['hola','asd'];save['hello'];));
print "VARIABLE OK \n" if $parser2->VARIABLE("a1");
print "FUNCTION OK\n" if $parser2->FUNCTION(q(print['hola','asd']));
print "FUNCNAME OK\n" if $parser2->FUNCNAME(q(print));
print "INSTRUCTION OK\n" if $parser2->FUNCTION(q(a0=print['hola','asd'];));

Any help? BTW my target is this:

variable=functioname['param1','param2','paramN'];
function2['param1'];
etc etc

Solution

  • This works for me (particularly, look at [A-Za-z0-9]):

    my $grammar = <<'_GRAMMAR_';
                SCRIPT : INSTRUCTION(s /;/) /\Z/
    
                INSTRUCTION: VARIABLE EQ FUNCTION | FUNCTION
    
                FUNCTION : FUNCNAME '[' PARAMETERS ']'
    
                FUNCNAME : "print" | "add2" | "save" 
    
                PARAMETERS : STRING(s /,/) 
    
                VARIABLE : /(\w[A-Za-z0-9]{0,10})/i 
    
                EQ: '=' 
    
                STRING : /'(?:[^'\\]|\\.)*'/ # ok
    _GRAMMAR_