Micro Parser Combinators

mpc is a lightweight Parser Combinator library for C.

Features

Full Type Generic Parser Combinator
Error Message Support
Regular Expression Support
Packaged with AST generator
Easy to including in source
Written in clean ANSI C

Alternatives

The current main alternative is a branch of (https://github.com/wbhart/Cesium3)[Cesium3].

The main advantages of mpc over this are:

Works for Generic Types
Doesn't rely on Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collection
Doesn't use setjmp and longjmp for errors
Doesn't pollute namespace

Example

Parsers

Combinators

Regular Expressions

Combinator Grammars

Abstract Syntax Tree

If you want to do all the data processing after the parsing stage mpc comes packaged with a basic AST type which makes the grammar declaration much cleaner as you don't have to pass around destructors and fold functions. All these functions reside under mpca_*.

This also allows for the use of parser grammars that can be declared directly in C strings similarly to regular expressions.

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