Who Should Attend:
Perl programmers who are familiar with simple regular expressions and the use of modules, and who need to process structured input of any kind.

Learn how to use a range of standard Perl features and several CPAN modules (in particular, Parse::RecDescent) to decipher and process a variety of complex data and command formats. It's a practical introduction to the techniques of grammar-based recursive-descent parsing. There'll even be some useful stuff, like how to write a program that does stand-up comedy!

Course Outline:

• A brief history of parsing
• Implementing parsers
• Useful tools
• Simple parsing
• Parsing data
• Parsing input
• Parsing code
• Parsing natural language