Parsing with Perl 6

Damian Conway (‎damian‎)

Melbourne.pm

Monday, 7 August 2017 09:00

390 minutes

Any

English 

Parsing with regular expressions and grammars in Perl 6 is the process of detecting and verifying the structure of incoming data and then processing that data so as to make it available to a program in convenient ways.

This full-day tutorial will introduce beginner and intermediate programmers to the powerful and efficient parsing mechanisms built into Perl 6, and will explore specific techniques for parsing data in a variety of commonly used formats.
Perl 5 or Perl 6 programmers who are familiar with simple regular expressions. The techniques presented are not restricted to the particular applications mentioned, and will be useful to anyone who needs to process or transform structured textual data of any kind.