And along these lines, one can use an older copy of the Ragel state machine generator (Ruby was eventually removed, IIRC). See for example: http://thingsaaronm

And along these lines, one can use an older copy of the Ragel state machine generator (Ruby was eventually removed, IIRC). See for example: http://thingsaaronmade.com/blog/a-simple-intro-to-writing-a-lexer-with-ragel.html http://thingsaaronmade.com/blog/a-simple-intro-to-writing-a-... https://github.com/adrian-thurston/ragel https://github.com/adrian-thurston/ragel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragel