Who Should Attend:
Perl programmers who have completed the tutorial "Practical Parsing with Parse::RecDescent," or who are already familiar with the basics of grammar-based parsing, and who need to process complex 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. Explore some of the more advanced features of the Parse::RecDescent module and explore the powerful parsing techniques those features support.

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Course Outline:

• Miscellaneous advanced features of Text::Balanced
• Miscellaneous extra features of Parse::RecDescent
• Non-deterministic parsing
• Pre-tokenization
• Automatic grammar generation
• Generic rules
• Handling distributed text
• Semi-grammatical parsing
• Self-modification
• (Nearly) parsing Perl
• Metagrammars