Open Source Windows Parser Generators - Page 2

argh is a tiny, pragmatic command-line argument parsing library that favors simple, readable code over elaborate configuration. It’s designed for the case where you just want to declare a few flags, accept some positional arguments, and print helpful usage text without wiring up a heavy framework. The API is intentionally compact so you can parse arguments inline near main() and map them straight into native types. It supports short and long options, boolean switches, and key–value flags while keeping error messages and help output understandable for end users. Subcommands can be modeled without much boilerplate, letting you structure larger CLIs while keeping each command self-contained. The overall feel is “get out of your way”: minimal setup, zero magic, and a straightforward path from argv to validated inputs.

A parser generator for PEG grammars, built using Java, currently producing code for Java.

BNF for Java is a BNF Compiler-Compiler, or Parser-Generator. It implements ISO Standard Backus-Naur Format, using Java. BNF allows you to create a syntax, or a complete language, to parse your data source. Your custom Java extensions generate output.

A simple way to create a syntax highlighting editor for a custom language/grammar and/or create custom grammar parsers. This is a .NET project written in C#. See details here: http://acct001.com/wordpress/?p=190

Berkeley Yacc is an LALR(1) parser generator. Berkeley Yacc has been made as compatible as possible with AT&T Yacc. Berkeley Yacc has been extended to generate Python, Perl and Java code.

Blade Language Developer (or Project Blade for short) is a toolkit for creating domain specific or general programming languages. The toolkit offers a language for describing grammars, and templatable parser generator.

CppCC is an object-oriented scanner and LL(k) parser generator. It aims to replace LEX&YACC for those who write C++ applications that involve parsing.

Generate a parser at runtime from a collection of C++ objects. Concisely state a parser specification in ordinary C++ code. Learn from a parser generator with an object-oriented design.

Covra is a project to help design compilers. C3 is a tool specialized on the easy design and construction of ASTs, it is independent of the compiler compilers or parser generator that is used. It generates Java and C# code. Require JRE 1.6.0.

CSP Canonical LR(1) Parser Generator. Includes lexer and parser generator. Supports all OS. Produces code as standard ANSI C++ w/ minimal STL and usable in commercial or non-commercial purposes.

C++ LALR parser generator

Chaperon is a LALR(1) parser, which parse structured text documents and generate XML documents as output. It includes a parser generator like yacc and a regex scaner like lex. As input use Chaperon a grammar written in XML.

Chatette is a Python-based tool for generating training datasets for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models, particularly those used with Rasa NLU. It employs a domain-specific language to define templates, enabling the creation of diverse and extensive training examples for intent classification and entity recognition.​

Chevrotain is a powerful and fast parser-building toolkit for JavaScript. It supports the construction of LL(k) parsers and is suitable for building interpreters, compilers, and DSLs.​

Coco/S is a compiler generator that takes plain EBNF grammar files and features a SAX style call back API. It is written in Java and produces a Java Scanner (Lexer) and Parser for the language described by the input grammar. Coco/S is a branch of the 2010/11 release of Coco/R for Java. While Coco/R takes an attributed grammar file, Coco/S has a callback API. This has the advantage of a clean separation between grammar (EBNF) and Compiler/Interpreter.

RiDL is a set of tools to simplify building compilers using Nemerle. It includes a lexical analyzer generator and a parser generator.

This project has moved to https://github.com/jplevyak/dparser The master on github is the stable. Please pull that for the very latest code. DParser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use. Grammars are written in a natural style of EBNF and regular expressions and support both speculative and final actions.

Elcc is an Earley parser generator written in Python and compatible with Yacc/Bison Syntax.

GJSON is a Go library designed for extremely fast, allocation-free retrieval of values from JSON documents. It enables you to query nested JSON structures using one-liner dot-notation or array-based paths and includes wildcard and comparison operators. The library is optimized for speed and zero allocations, benchmarking significantly faster than Go’s standard encoding/json unmarshal approaches. It supports parsing JSON lines (newline-delimited JSON) as an array for large stream processing. GJSON also provides modifiers (such as @reverse, @flatten, @keys) which allow transformation or inspection directly via the path syntax. Because it works on raw bytes or strings, it's suited for high-performance JSON parsing without needing to define Go struct types.

A runtime parser generator library, generates parsers for context-free grammars. Parsing scripting languages and communication protocol messages are typical use cases. The library is written in straight C++ and requires STL. Clean, correct, efficient.

Instaparse is a simple yet powerful parser generator for Clojure and ClojureScript that turns grammars written in EBNF or ABNF into executable parsers, with support for left recursion, ambiguous grammars, PEG-like lookahead, and various output formats. Instaparse supports most of the common notations for context-free grammars. For example, a popular alternative to * is to surround the term with curly braces {}, and a popular alternative to ? is to surround the term with square brackets []. Rules can be specified with =, :, :=, or ::=. Rules can optionally end with ;. Instaparse is very flexible in terms of how you use whitespace (as in Clojure, , is treated as whitespace) and you can liberally use parentheses for grouping.

IronMeta is an implementation of Alessandro Warth's OMeta metaprogramming system in C#. It provides a packrat parser generator that generates parsers for Parsing Expression Grammars that operate on arbitrary streams of objects.

A Java command-line option parser generator, providing function similar to GNU Getopt, but much richer.

Open source mini Python compiler written in Java using Sablecc as parser generator.

Top-down parser that can parse parentheses and braces and quotes but let's the rest to you. See documentation in Files/doc.