ocaml-parsing

Writing a parser in OCaml requires a surprising amount of boilerplate code. This is a fully functional skeleton using standard tools:

• Menhir, a LR(1) parser generator
• Sedlex, a lexer generator with Unicode support
• Jane Street's core, the inofficial standard library for OCaml
• Jane Street's jbuilder, an OCaml build system

How to build

With opam, OCaml's packet manager, all dependencies can be installed automatically:

opam update                                     # ensure opam is up to date
opam switch 4.05                                # install OCaml 4.05
eval `opam config env`                          # set env variables
opam pin add --yes --no-action ocaml_parsing .  # install other...
opam install --yes --deps-only ocaml_parsing    # ...dependencies

Then, simply run make to build, and make test to build the test file. To run the test file, execute _build/default/test/test.exe.

The code has been last tested with OCaml 4.05.

Suggestion and Improvements

Feel free to submit pull requests. Suggestions and changes are welcome.