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A cheatsheet, stackoverflow and https://regex101.com/ https://regex101.com/ - and of course a basic understanding of regular expressions in general. If somethi

A cheatsheet, stackoverflow and https://regex101.com/ https://regex101.com/ - and of course a basic understanding of regular expressions in general. If something gets too complex, I tend to write a Tokenizer / Lexer these days. It's not that hard.

cpach 2y ago
Out of curiosity, do you perhaps have some specific examples where you opted to write a tokenizer/lexer?
- sandreas 2y ago
  Most of the time when parsing whole formats, e.g. ffmetadata, cue or mp4chaps. Sometimes on complex rule based things or validation.