In search of an easy parser generator

Question

I need a simple parser generator. The language does not matter. It only has to be easy and well documented.

Answer 1

I found SableCC for Java pretty easy to use, back in the days of my compiler construction classes. A tutorial is here.

Edit: Those days were a few years back. Looking at the other answers, you might be better off with ANTLR. I'll let the votes decide!

Answer 2

Have you looked at ANTLR?

Answer 3

You're definitely going to want to take a look at ANTLR. It's not only well-documented but is considered one of the de-facto utilities for language designers.

Answer 4

If you want to work in Visual Studio and possibly use C#, look at MPPG from Microsoft, part of the Managed Language Services SDK.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb165963(VS.80).aspx

Answer 5

I'm fond of bison, also known as yacc. It's not terribly hard, but it requires knowing C.

If you are more a Perl person, Parse::RecDescent is not difficult either.