Re: [Pyparsing] Variable comment char

[Ralph C. <ra...@in...>]

Hi Russell,

> I need to parse a rather evil format that has the following line:
> 
> [Comment Char] |_char
> 
> Which would change the comment char to '|'.

How about a two-pass approach?  Have pyparsing handle just these `change
comment char' commands with all the other text being stripped of
comments, denoted by the current char, by Python code, then pyparse
again with your full grammar knowing all comments have gone.

Cheers, Ralph.