Re: [Comp-hist-devel] Updated (again) Parser

[Hans B P. <ha...@di...>]

Christophe Fergeau wrote:

> I fixed a few things in the parser :
>
> 1. On my machine, it could not compile (type casting pb in parse_line)

Sorry about that. I do use a Borland compiler, should set it to strict ANSI I
suppose.  Is this the same problme Kurt has with version 3? Can you send me a
copy so I can fix mine?

> 2. The file sinclair was not correctly parsed because it contains lines more
> than 512 characters long

Ah tht's easy to fix ;-) I am thinking of redoing the input parser to eliminate
all line length restrictions.

> 3. Now, it correctly deals with nodes which have several Successor to fields

Oooh, did not think of that? How is that handled, where do we keep the links?
Presumably should handle multiples of any of the link fields.

> Now that we have a working C parser, we can easily convert our database to
> an  sql database and allow people to consult our database using php. If you
> want such an access, I can do it but not before mid september

Indeed...

> Next week, I'll be away so I won't be able to do any work for the project.
> At least, I'll try to check my mails regularly.

Have a good holiday (I presume).

-- Hans