Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Heinrich du Toit <[email protected]> · Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:18:41 +0200

Oops.. actually I need like the parser part..
Ie. what bison does :)

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 08:31 +0200, Heinrich du Toit wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is there 'n lexical analyzer for .db files?
> 
> I guess there must be something in epics BASE somewhere?
> But is it written in something like flex that can easily be
> extended/used or is it some custom code nightmare?
> 
> O let me explain.
> I want to make some sort of .db file pre-processor that can do some
> modifications. Mainly macro expansion type stuff.
> And this I want to use so that some rule stuff can be written in Macro's
> and not in long complex records and hopefully make it easier to maintain
> and understand and change. And then maybe also handle some other stuff
> with the pre-processor to keep thing consistently linked ect... making
> it more reliable and less prone to human error. Plus the person working
> with it might not fully understand all the internal stuff of 'n db.
> 
> Any ideas is welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> -Heinrich
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System