string parsing

• the simplest form of string parsing is the cast to int: int("23") == 23; split() and strip() as in python
• decode string, decode ways (Private)
• extract patterns from strings. regex: e.g, obtain all substrings that end with a digit in a string
• parsing for grammar: https://youtu.be/bxpc9Pp5pZM?si=rtZWMLdkiItkA7nh
• recursive descent parsing https://youtu.be/SToUyjAsaFk?si=ipldkZPrAGnnKi0i
• build parser: https://youtu.be/4m7ubrdbWQU?si=q7rNB9cdSik_Jhfk
  • (how do you parse a string of code into an AST? can you use regex? answer: that can't work. but you do use regex for smaller tasks like on the tokens.)
• How to parse input _{cli/tui apps}
• JSON parser _{hacking how series}
• beancount's parser https://github.com/beancount/beancount

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• cli/tui apps
• hacking how series