There's no place like ::1

As part of my investigation work on PHP, I needed a preprocessor capable of extracting all the PHP from a PHP file, discarding all HTML it encounters.

Initially I thought it would be a hard job, but latter found that AntLR3 makes this job really easy!

I wrote something like this:

lexer grammar FuzzyPHP;

options { filter=true; }

PHP : ‘‘ { System.out.println(getText()); };

This happens to work really good :) Now I can continue my PHP parser…

*: Of course my code doesn’t work when you have strings like '?>'. Here’s a new version that should work :)

PHP : ‘SINGLE_QUOTED_STRING | DOUBLE_QUOTED_STRING)) ’?>’ { out.println(getText()); };

SINGLE_QUOTED_STRING : ’\’’ (’\\\\’ | ’\\\’’ | ~(’\’‘))* ’\’’ ;

DOUBLE_QUOTED_STRING : ’”’ (’\\\\’ | ’\\”’ | ~(’”’)) * ’”’ ;

Tags java php

Everyone knows that Java sucks. But now I’m finishing my one year project on program comprehension. The application is written in Java, so you can imagine I have tons of classes and many KLOCs spread over the project tree.

Unfortunately I am at this phase that it is impossible to maintain the code! Poor planning? No! JAVA SUCKS! So now I’m refactoring all the way down, rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting….

This will be a really bad week :(

Tags java