Re: [Pyparsing] To parse any language character set

[Ujjaval S. <usm...@gm...>]

Hi Eike,
Thanks for that. Actually, the reason my grammer was not working is because
I had to put \r inside CharsNotIn() where I only had '|'. The did the trick
for me.

Cheers,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Eike Welk <eik...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello Ujjaval!
>
> On Tuesday 28 October 2008, you wrote:
> > Now to parse such sentence, I changed your parser code to the
> > following: Here, I want to parse this string as a string that
> > starts with 'ABC' followed by '|' and ends with '\r'. I need
> > everything in between with '|' as delimiter in a list including
> > 'XYZ' as last element in this case.
>
> Look at:
>    LineEnd()
>
> Your parsers normally don't see '\n' because the whitespace is removed
> by the parsing machinery. If you want to use the end-of-line
> frequently as an element in your grammar, you could tell Pyparsing
> that '\n' should not be treated as whitespace:
>    ParserElement.setDefaultWhitespaceChars('\t ')
>
> But you have to care for all the newlines youself then, which might
> become tedious. Look at
>    indentedBlock(...)
> as an example how Paul (Pyparsing's author) does it. (I use
> indentedBlock myself.)
>
> Kind regards,
> Eike.
>
>