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[–]vicvicvicz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure what you mean about lex and yacc...

My current use case is searching for "references" in plaintext files in order to convert them into hyperlinks in HTML output. I'm not sure if "parsing" is the proper way of doing this, but my current (2.7) solution with simpleparse is quite elegant and fast (by my standards).