Re: a little parsing challenge ☺

[Xah Lee]

On Jul 17, 8:31 am, Thomas Jollans <t... at jollybox.de> wrote:
> On Jul 17, 9:47 am,XahLee <xah... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 2011-07-16
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> > folks, this one will be interesting one.
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> > the problem is to write a script that can check a dir of text files
> > (and all subdirs) and reports if a file has any mismatched matching
> > brackets.
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> > • The files will be utf-8 encoded (unix style line ending).
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> > • If a file has mismatched matching-pairs, the script will display the
> > file name, and the  line number and column number of the first
> > instance where a mismatched bracket occures. (or, just the char number
> > instead (as in emacs's “point”))
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> > • the matching pairs are all single unicode chars. They are these and
> > nothing else: () {} [] “” ‹› «» 【】 〈〉 《》 「」 『』
> > Note that ‘single curly quote’ is not consider matching pair here.
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> > • You script must be standalone. Must not be using some parser tools.
> > But can call lib that's part of standard distribution in your lang.
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> > Here's a example of mismatched bracket: ([)], (“[[”), ((, 】etc. (and
> > yes, the brackets may be nested. There are usually text between these
> > chars.)
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> > I'll be writing a emacs lisp solution and post in 2 days. Ι welcome
> > other lang implementations. In particular, perl, python, php, ruby,
> > tcl, lua, Haskell, Ocaml. I'll also be able to eval common lisp
> > (clisp) and Scheme lisp (scsh), Java. Other lang such as Clojure,
> > Scala, C, C++, or any others, are all welcome, but i won't be able to
> > eval it. javascript implementation will be very interesting too, but
> > please indicate which and where to install the command line version.
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> > I hope you'll find this a interesting “challenge”. This is a parsing
> > problem. I haven't studied parsers except some Wikipedia reading, so
> > my solution will probably be naive. I hope to see and learn from your
> > solution too.
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> > i hope you'll participate. Just post solution here. Thanks.
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> I thought I'd have some fun with multi-processing:
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> https://gist.github.com/1087682

hi Thomas. I ran the program, all cpu went max (i have a quad), but
after i think 3 minutes nothing happens, so i killed it.

is there something special one should know to run the script?

I'm using Python 3.2.1 on Windows 7.

 Xah