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I was definitely intimidated by it at first. The chapter on parsing and the examples using Parse::RecDescent in Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd ed. made it much less so and I decided to give it a try on my recent Pod::WikiDoc module for the wiki-text parsing part of it. It went fairly well and was almost fun to figure out -- that said, it's very hard to debug and follow what it's doing when it isn't going well.

I'd consider using it again, but now that I know more about parsing (thanks in part to Higher Order Perl), I might consider other techniques/modules as well.

-xdg

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In reply to Re: Gathering experiences with Parse::RecDescent by xdg
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