| Re: Is there a way to use C++ code in IDL [message #34203 is a reply to message #34201] |
Thu, 20 February 2003 10:45   |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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CelticBlues wrote:
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> It's a fairly complex ascii file, the parser of which I did not write
> myself. Combine the complexity, with the fact that I didn't write the
> original parser, and I feel more comfortable reusing the code, than
> rewriting it in IDL, which I just started using yesterday. Maybe as I learn
> more about IDL, I'll write a parser in IDL, but until then....
I'm not being flippant when I say this may be a good opportunity to learn IDL - and
understand more about your data file/structure. Assuming you have the luxury of time.
Otherwise, why not use the C++ parser to read the file and write some simple little C++
program to output the structure in some really simple format that would take "5 minutes"
to write a parser for to read into IDL? (Here I'm assuming all you want to use IDL for in
this case is plot the data)
paulv
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> Thanks for the info,
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> Later,
> Ed
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> "David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.18bec429c19cf041989af0@news.frii.com...
>> James Kuyper (kuyper@saicmodis.com) writes:
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>>> That depends entirely on how complicated the syntax that it parses is.
>>> If he's worried about the recoding effort, I doubt that the parsing is
>>> simple enough to be a 5 minute job in IDL. With all due respect to IDL,
>>> most things that can be parsed correctly by a 5-minute IDL program have
>>> a fairly simple syntax.
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>> Perhaps I exaggerated a little. (It's been known to happen.)
>> But I stand by my "orders of magnitude" comment. :-)
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
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