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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:20:44 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: i need help with parsing nested commands
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anarko wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone :-)
> 
>   I need a code snippet that "un-nests" a textstring like:
>   (a*4(b/32)+9)+(b*(97+4))
> 
>   just an example, as you might have guessed i need it for
>   a compiler i am writing, and it is not a c compiler
>   but a project of my own, i'll tell you more when i
>   have more code written, it's in early stages.
> 
>   if someone might have written such code snippet,
>   or can explain the principles in how to "un-nest"
>   this with a loop or something, could you please help me then?

This is a classical parser job, and Bison's manual has an example that
does it.
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Nate Eldredge
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