[This is preliminary documentation and is subject to change.]
Generates a SyntaxParser for a particular grammar. The grammar
and target language will be case sensitive.
Declaration Syntax| C# |
public static bool GenerateParser( string grammar, IGeneratorClass targetGenerator, out SyntaxParser generatedParser, out ErrorToken errors )
Parameters- grammar (String)
- a string containing the grammar for the parser to be generated. See the SyntaxParser documentation for details of how to write a grammar.
- targetGenerator (IGeneratorClass)
- The object to be used for generating code with the generated parser. This should have one method with the same LHS name as each production you want to handle during the code generation process.
- generatedParser (SyntaxParser%)
- On return, the SyntaxParser generated for the supplied grammar, or null if any lexical of syntax errors occurred.
- errors (ErrorToken%)
- On return, if no errors occurred, then null, otherwise an ErrorToken containing a single error of a collection of errors. If the error(s) are syntax errors in the grammar, then no parser is produced. If the error(s) are shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts, then one error message is produced with all details, but the parser is still created.
Return ValueTrue if a SyntaxParser was generated otherwise false. Even if the
parser was generated, there may be shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts
reported in the errors parameters.