Sure. Learning Parsec took me a few hours, whereas John's parsing task might be done in much less time, if it's simple enough. OTOH, there's value in being able to use Parsec, so it's a good excuse to learn.

-----Original Message----- From: Graham Klyne [mailto:GK@ninebynine.org] Sent: 30 September 2004 10:34 To: Bayley, Alistair; 'John Goerzen'; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Simple example using Parsec (was: [Haskell-cafe] Rethinking OO idioms)

At 09:01 30/09/04 +0100, Bayley, Alistair wrote:

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Ben suggested using Parsec for reading the config file. Parsec is a fine library, but there is a learning curve, and you might find it quicker to do the parsing yourself, if it's very simple. Your call.

Hmmm... Parsec *can* be simple too. Here's one I did earlier: http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/HaskellUtils/RegexParser.hs

#g

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