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Cobbler89

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RAW format
« on: December 25, 2012, 01:47:41 pm »
A question: is the actual parsing of Toady's raw files just something he came up with, or is there some library out there he's using or building off of?

I have a utility I've been working on (er, was working on earlier this year...) that needs something similar, and I just read a thread here about making a better raw editting tool (better inasmuch as it translates the options the raws can have into a user interface form instead of just helping you browse and see syntax while you edit the text yourself)...

...And I thought, if this raw thing happened to have a certain well-defined way to parse it, I'm sure that would help people like us handle them -- and build our own configurations using the same syntax, so DF modders who aren't as used to XML as they are to the raws will find our configurations easy to work with. In either case it would make it easier for us to make the parsing safe and correct.
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Re: RAW format
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2012, 01:50:24 pm »
It is selfmade. The actual DF code is C++.
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Re: RAW format
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2012, 02:21:49 pm »
The raws are definitely easily parsable. DF has to parse them, after all.
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Re: RAW format
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2012, 03:23:03 pm »
Wewt!  I think I won a convert!

What is your language of choice?  I know we're up to at least three .Net programmers, we probably have java programmers too.

I think we could all put our heads together and develop a pseudo-code that can be translated into whatever language we want to use and would always work the same.  Hmmm, actually if I remember correctly, there was already an existing psuedocode out there...somewhere...but then again I'm often wrong.

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Re: RAW format
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2012, 06:09:56 pm »
Here : https://github.com/lxnt/fgtestbed/blob/master/lib/python/fgt/raw.py

Among other things, a df raws parser that parses most interesting raws there are.



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