Dear Monks, I beg your wisdom...
I am trying to parse a string for which I need to consume dynamically determined number of characters. Can P:RD be persuaded to do that?
Here is a simple example string:
s:5:"abcde"; -- the '5' is the number of characters in the string
Here's the hard part:
s:18:"s:10:"abcdefghij";"; -- the string can store other strings, so I can't just search for ";
I know that subrules can have repetition counts, but I can't get something like
String: 's: ' Count '"' Cdata($item{Count}) '";'
to work
Here's the simplified grammar. Is there a way I can consume the number of characters specified by $item{Count}?
my $grammar = q{
CompText: Command(s)
Command:
String
| Integer
Array: 'a:' <commit> Count ':{' Command(s) '}'
{ $return = "a:$item{Count}:{" . join( '', @{$item[-2]}) . "}"
}
String:
's:' Count ':"' Array '";'
{ $return = "s:$item{Count}:\"" . join( '', @{$item{Array}}) .
+ "\";"
}
| 's:' Count ':"' Cdata_String '";'
{ $return = "s:$item{Count}:\"" . join( '', @{$item[-2]}) . "\
+";"
}
Cdata_String: Cdata(s?)
Count: /\d+/
Cdata:
/./
};
Thank you, --Michael
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