Tutorial Practical Parsing with Perl6::Rules Damian Conway, Thoughtstream Track: Perl Date: Tuesday, July 27 Time: 8:45am - 12:15pm Location: Salon D TrackBack This half-day tutorial will show you how to use the new pattern-matching and grammar features of Perl 6...in Perl 5. The first half of the course explains the new regular expression syntax, demonstrating how to convert real-world Perl 5 regexes to Perl 6 syntax, and how to incorporate the resulting patterns into actual Perl 5 programs (via the new Perl6::Rules module). The second half of the course provides a brief introduction to grammar-based parsing techniques in Perl 6, with working examples including: how to process structured expressions (e.g. search engine queries); how to separate the code and comments in a C program; how to detect overlapping matches in DNA sequences; and how parse ambiguous natural language data.

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