Seeing how im advocating that everyone should know when to be using parsing tools rather than cobbling together a regexp cludge, here are some links to some rel

Seeing how im advocating that everyone should know when to be using parsing tools rather than cobbling together a regexp cludge, here are some links to some relevant tools in a variety of languages. Note that these are not parser generator tools, but parser combinator libraries: * Python: PyParsing - http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ - this is probably the most well respected parser library for python picoparse - http://github.com/brehaut/picoparse - My parsec inspired parser combinator library. It is significantly more light weight than pyparsing, and I would recommend pyparsing in its place for more heavy lifting parsers. * Ruby: RParsec - http://rubyforge.org/projects/rparsec/ - A ruby implementation of Parsec. I've heard good things about it. * Haskell: Parsec - http://legacy.cs.uu.nl/daan/parsec.html - This is an amazing library, worth anyones time. http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parsec * F#: FParsec - http://www.quanttec.com/fparsec/ - This is reason enough to learn F#; it is a fairly true port of the haskell library and very nice to use. * Scala: Packrat Parsing - I believe this is part of the standard lib. http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/api/scala/util/parsing/combinator/PackratParsers.html * Clojure: fnparse - http://github.com/joshua-choi/fnparse * Java: jparsec - http://jparsec.codehaus.org/ [edits: formating]