OGLA is a lexical analysis library for C++.
The main purpose of OGLA is to provide an easy to use lexical analyzer that is not tied to any particular language grammar. Its focus is on flexibility and ease of use, as opposed to speed and efficiency. It's intended for projects that only require basic lexical analysis. It is not intended for use in advanced applications (e.g. a compiler).
Uses for this library:
- parsing command line arguments
- parsing custom config files
- pretty printing
The boost branch of this repository has a variation of this library which uses
Boost Regex instead of std::regex. The reason
for maintaining this separate branch is that Boost Regex implements certain features (e.g. partial expression matching)
that are used to make the lexer more powerful. The branch may eventually get merged back into devel once the standard
library implements the same features.
OGLA is distributed under the Boost Software License.