Neotoma is a packrat parser-generator for Erlang for Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs).
It consists of a parsing-combinator library with memoization routines, a parser for PEGs,
and a utility to generate parsers from PEGs. It is inspired by treetop, a Ruby library with
similar aims, and parsec, the parser-combinator library for Haskell.
Neotoma is licensed under the MIT License (see LICENSE).
- Simple, declarative parsers generated from even simpler grammars.
- Fully integrated, single-pass lexical and syntactic analysis (a feature of PEGs).
- Packrat-style memoization, boasting parse-time bound linearly to the input size (at the expense of memory usage).
- In-place semantic analysis/transformation, supporting single-pass end-to-end in some applications.
- Erlang code-generation for the lexical/syntactic analysis piece, with the option of semantic analysis/transformation inline, or in a separate module.
- Line/column number tracking for easy resolution of parsing errors.
- Clone the repository from github:
$ git clone git://github.com/seancribbs/neotoma.git
- Symlink or copy the cloned repository to somewhere in your Erlang code path. $ERLANG_HOME/lib is best.
- Build the source:
$ make
- After making sure the library is in your code path, fire up an Erlang shell.
- To generate a parser from a PEG, use
neotoma:file/1,2
(more detailed documentation pending). For PEG examples, see theextra/
directory in the repository.
1> neotoma:file("extra/arithmetic.peg").
arithmetic.erl
in the same directory as the .peg
file by default.
Please send pull-requests to โseancribbsโ on github. When submitting a patch, eunit tests are strongly encouraged.