Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Heinrich du Toit <[email protected]> · Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:31:43 +0200

Hi

Is there 'n lexical analyzer for .db files?

I guess there must be something in epics BASE somewhere?
But is it written in something like flex that can easily be
extended/used or is it some custom code nightmare?

O let me explain.
I want to make some sort of .db file pre-processor that can do some
modifications. Mainly macro expansion type stuff.
And this I want to use so that some rule stuff can be written in Macro's
and not in long complex records and hopefully make it easier to maintain
and understand and change. And then maybe also handle some other stuff
with the pre-processor to keep thing consistently linked ect... making
it more reliable and less prone to human error. Plus the person working
with it might not fully understand all the internal stuff of 'n db.

Any ideas is welcome.

Thanks
-Heinrich

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System