Hi Javier, I agree with Seth and Rowan; a hand written lexer will be easier to write and maintain. Maybe SableCC4 will change that, but I am not sure. Parsing tools are particularly useful for recovering structure in texts. When you already have structured data (which is usually the case of binary files), the added value is less. I guees that, in that case, it mostly depends on whether the generated AST classes add value or not. Have fun! Etienne PS: I guess that you are aware that this mailing list is public. A confidentiality addendum does not make much sense. Javier Abdul Cordoba Gandara wrote: > Hi all. I've been using SableCC for quite some time now. Now I'm facing a project where I need to process lines of data that represent transactions in very fixed formats [...] -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. SableCC: http://sablecc.org SableVM: http://sablevm.org
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