;**************************************************************************** ; Simple Parsing of input ; ; The following simple functions surprisingly often suffice to parse ; an input stream. They either skip, or build and return tokens, ; according to inclusion or delimiting semantics. The list of ; characters to expect, include, or to break at may vary from one ; invocation of a function to another. This allows the functions to ; easily parse even context-sensitive languages. ; ; EOF is generally frowned on, and thrown up upon if encountered. ; Exceptions are mentioned specifically. The list of expected characters ; (characters to skip until, or break-characters) may include an EOF ; "character", which is to be coded as symbol *eof* ; ; The input stream to parse is specified as a PORT, which is usually ; the last (and optional) argument. It defaults to the current input ; port if omitted. ; ; IMPORT ; This package relies on a function parser-error, which must be defined ; by a user of the package. The function has the following signature: ; procedure: parser-error PORT MESSAGE SPECIALISING-MSG* ; Many procedures of this package call parser-error to report a parsing ; error. The first argument is a port, which typically points to the ; offending character or its neighborhood. Most of the Scheme systems ; let the user query a PORT for the current position. MESSAGE is the ; description of the error. Other arguments supply more details about ; the problem. ; ; myenv.scm, myenv-bigloo.scm or a similar prelude is assumed. ; From SRFI-13, string-concatenate-reverse ; If a particular implementation lacks SRFI-13 support, please ; include the file srfi-13-local.scm ; ; $Id: input-parse.scm,v 1.8 2004/11/09 20:22:26 sperber Exp $ ;------------------------------------------------------------------------ ; -- procedure+: peek-next-char [PORT] ; advances to the next character in the PORT and peeks at it. ; This function is useful when parsing LR(1)-type languages ; (one-char-read-ahead). ; The optional argument PORT defaults to the current input port. (define-opt (peek-next-char (optional (port (current-input-port)))) (read-char port) (peek-char port)) ;------------------------------------------------------------------------ ; -- procedure+: assert-curr-char CHAR-LIST STRING [PORT] ; Reads a character from the PORT and looks it up ; in the CHAR-LIST of expected characters ; If the read character was found among expected, it is returned ; Otherwise, the procedure writes a nasty message using STRING ; as a comment, and quits. ; The optional argument PORT defaults to the current input port. ; (define-opt (assert-curr-char expected-chars comment (optional (port (current-input-port)))) (let ((c (read-char port))) (if (memv c expected-chars) c (parser-error port "Wrong character " c " (0x" (if (eof-object? c) "*eof*" (number->string (char->integer c) 16)) ") " comment ". " expected-chars " expected")))) ; -- procedure+: skip-until CHAR-LIST [PORT] ; Reads and skips characters from the PORT until one of the break ; characters is encountered. This break character is returned. ; The break characters are specified as the CHAR-LIST. This list ; may include EOF, which is to be coded as a symbol *eof* ; ; -- procedure+: skip-until NUMBER [PORT] ; Skips the specified NUMBER of characters from the PORT and returns #f ; ; The optional argument PORT defaults to the current input port. (define-opt (skip-until arg (optional (port (current-input-port))) ) (cond ((number? arg) ; skip 'arg' characters (do ((i arg (dec i))) ((not (positive? i)) #f) (if (eof-object? (read-char port)) (parser-error port "Unexpected EOF while skipping " arg " characters")))) (else ; skip until break-chars (=arg) (let loop ((c (read-char port))) (cond ((memv c arg) c) ((eof-object? c) (if (memq '*eof* arg) c (parser-error port "Unexpected EOF while skipping until " arg))) (else (loop (read-char port)))))))) ; -- procedure+: skip-while CHAR-LIST [PORT] ; Reads characters from the PORT and disregards them, ; as long as they are mentioned in the CHAR-LIST. ; The first character (which may be EOF) peeked from the stream ; that is NOT a member of the CHAR-LIST is returned. This character ; is left on the stream. ; The optional argument PORT defaults to the current input port. (define-opt (skip-while skip-chars (optional (port (current-input-port))) ) (do ((c (peek-char port) (peek-char port))) ((not (memv c skip-chars)) c) (read-char port))) ; whitespace const ;------------------------------------------------------------------------ ; Stream tokenizers ; -- procedure+: ; next-token PREFIX-CHAR-LIST BREAK-CHAR-LIST [COMMENT-STRING] [PORT] ; skips any number of the prefix characters (members of the ; PREFIX-CHAR-LIST), if any, and reads the sequence of characters ; up to (but not including) a break character, one of the ; BREAK-CHAR-LIST. ; The string of characters thus read is returned. ; The break character is left on the input stream ; The list of break characters may include EOF, which is to be coded as ; a symbol *eof*. Otherwise, EOF is fatal, generating an error message ; including a specified COMMENT-STRING (if any) ; ; The optional argument PORT defaults to the current input port. ; ; Note: since we can't tell offhand how large the token being read is ; going to be, we make a guess, pre-allocate a string, and grow it by ; quanta if necessary. The quantum is always the length of the string ; before it was extended the last time. Thus the algorithm does ; a Fibonacci-type extension, which has been proven optimal. ; Note, explicit port specification in read-char, peek-char helps. ; Procedure: input-parse:init-buffer ; returns an initial buffer for next-token* procedures. ; The input-parse:init-buffer may allocate a new buffer per each invocation: ; (define (input-parse:init-buffer) (make-string 32)) ; Size 32 turns out to be fairly good, on average. ; That policy is good only when a Scheme system is multi-threaded with ; preemptive scheduling, or when a Scheme system supports shared substrings. ; In all the other cases, it's better for input-parse:init-buffer to ; return the same static buffer. next-token* functions return a copy ; (a substring) of accumulated data, so the same buffer can be reused. ; We shouldn't worry about an incoming token being too large: ; next-token will use another chunk automatically. Still, ; the best size for the static buffer is to allow most of the tokens to fit in. ; Using a static buffer _dramatically_ reduces the amount of produced garbage ; (e.g., during XML parsing). (define input-parse:init-buffer (let ((buffer (make-string 512))) (lambda () buffer))) ; See a better version below (define-opt (next-token-old prefix-skipped-chars break-chars (optional (comment "") (port (current-input-port))) ) (let* ((buffer (input-parse:init-buffer)) (curr-buf-len (string-length buffer)) (quantum curr-buf-len)) (let loop ((i 0) (c (skip-while prefix-skipped-chars port))) (cond ((memv c break-chars) (substring buffer 0 i)) ((eof-object? c) (if (memq '*eof* break-chars) (substring buffer 0 i) ; was EOF expected? (parser-error port "EOF while reading a token " comment))) (else (if (>= i curr-buf-len) ; make space for i-th char in buffer (begin ; -> grow the buffer by the quantum (set! buffer (string-append buffer (make-string quantum))) (set! quantum curr-buf-len) (set! curr-buf-len (string-length buffer)))) (string-set! buffer i c) (read-char port) ; move to the next char (loop (inc i) (peek-char port)) ))))) ; A better version of next-token, which accumulates the characters ; in chunks, and later on reverse-concatenates them, using ; SRFI-13 if available. ; The overhead of copying characters is only 100% (or even smaller: bulk ; string copying might be well-optimised), compared to the (hypothetical) ; circumstance if we had known the size of the token beforehand. ; For small tokens, the code performs just as above. For large ; tokens, we expect an improvement. Note, the code also has no ; assignments. ; See next-token-comp.scm (define-opt (next-token prefix-skipped-chars break-chars (optional (comment "") (port (current-input-port))) ) (let outer ((buffer (input-parse:init-buffer)) (filled-buffer-l '()) (c (skip-while prefix-skipped-chars port))) (let ((curr-buf-len (string-length buffer))) (let loop ((i 0) (c c)) (cond ((memv c break-chars) (if (null? filled-buffer-l) (substring buffer 0 i) (string-concatenate-reverse filled-buffer-l buffer i))) ((eof-object? c) (if (memq '*eof* break-chars) ; was EOF expected? (if (null? filled-buffer-l) (substring buffer 0 i) (string-concatenate-reverse filled-buffer-l buffer i)) (parser-error port "EOF while reading a token " comment))) ((>= i curr-buf-len) (outer (make-string curr-buf-len) (cons buffer filled-buffer-l) c)) (else (string-set! buffer i c) (read-char port) ; move to the next char (loop (inc i) (peek-char port)))))))) ; -- procedure+: next-token-of INC-CHARSET [PORT] ; Reads characters from the PORT that belong to the list of characters ; INC-CHARSET. The reading stops at the first character which is not ; a member of the set. This character is left on the stream. ; All the read characters are returned in a string. ; ; -- procedure+: next-token-of PRED [PORT] ; Reads characters from the PORT for which PRED (a procedure of one ; argument) returns non-#f. The reading stops at the first character ; for which PRED returns #f. That character is left on the stream. ; All the results of evaluating of PRED up to #f are returned in a ; string. ; ; PRED is a procedure that takes one argument (a character ; or the EOF object) and returns a character or #f. The returned ; character does not have to be the same as the input argument ; to the PRED. For example, ; (next-token-of (lambda (c) ; (cond ((eof-object? c) #f) ; ((char-alphabetic? c) (char-downcase c)) ; (else #f)))) ; will try to read an alphabetic token from the current ; input port, and return it in lower case. ; ; The optional argument PORT defaults to the current input port. ; ; This procedure is similar to next-token but only it implements ; an inclusion rather than delimiting semantics. (define-opt (next-token-of incl-list/pred (optional (port (current-input-port))) ) (let* ((buffer (input-parse:init-buffer)) (curr-buf-len (string-length buffer))) (if (procedure? incl-list/pred) (let outer ((buffer buffer) (filled-buffer-l '())) (let loop ((i 0)) (if (>= i curr-buf-len) ; make sure we have space (outer (make-string curr-buf-len) (cons buffer filled-buffer-l)) (let ((c (incl-list/pred (peek-char port)))) (if c (begin (string-set! buffer i c) (read-char port) ; move to the next char (loop (inc i))) ; incl-list/pred decided it had had enough (if (null? filled-buffer-l) (substring buffer 0 i) (string-concatenate-reverse filled-buffer-l buffer i))))))) ; incl-list/pred is a list of allowed characters (let outer ((buffer buffer) (filled-buffer-l '())) (let loop ((i 0)) (if (>= i curr-buf-len) ; make sure we have space (outer (make-string curr-buf-len) (cons buffer filled-buffer-l)) (let ((c (peek-char port))) (cond ((not (memv c incl-list/pred)) (if (null? filled-buffer-l) (substring buffer 0 i) (string-concatenate-reverse filled-buffer-l buffer i))) (else (string-set! buffer i c) (read-char port) ; move to the next char (loop (inc i)))))))) ))) ; -- procedure+: read-text-line [PORT] ; Reads one line of text from the PORT, and returns it as a string. ; A line is a (possibly empty) sequence of characters terminated ; by CR, CRLF or LF (or even the end of file). ; The terminating character (or CRLF combination) is removed from ; the input stream. The terminating character(s) is not a part ; of the return string either. ; If EOF is encountered before any character is read, the return ; value is EOF. ; ; The optional argument PORT defaults to the current input port. (define *read-line-breaks* (list char-newline char-return '*eof*)) (define-opt (read-text-line (optional (port (current-input-port))) ) (if (eof-object? (peek-char port)) (peek-char port) (let* ((line (next-token '() *read-line-breaks* "reading a line" port)) (c (read-char port))) ; must be either \n or \r or EOF (and (eqv? c char-return) (eqv? (peek-char port) #\newline) (read-char port)) ; skip \n that follows \r line))) ; -- procedure+: read-string N [PORT] ; Reads N characters from the PORT, and returns them in a string. ; If EOF is encountered before N characters are read, a shorter string ; will be returned. ; If N is not positive, an empty string will be returned. ; The optional argument PORT defaults to the current input port. (define-opt (read-string n (optional (port (current-input-port))) ) (if (not (positive? n)) "" (let ((buffer (make-string n))) (let loop ((i 0) (c (read-char port))) (if (eof-object? c) (substring buffer 0 i) (let ((i1 (inc i))) (string-set! buffer i c) (if (= i1 n) buffer (loop i1 (read-char port)))))))))