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Need an extended example for your typical math expression like grammar

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The issue names no file, test, or entry point; begin by locating the repository's existing examples and expression-grammar documentation. Done means an elaborated C/C++-style arithmetic example demonstrates the listed unary, binary, bitwise, and comparison operators with precedence.

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Description

Lots of times when people get down into the nitty gritty of using a parsing framework, it's because their ad-hoc attempts at using a regex or whatever for a complicated grammar becomes unwieldy. One of the most common needs for using a parsing framework is when you need to parse arithmetic expressions with operator precedence similar to C/C++.

An elaborated example that demonstrated parsing expression using all the typical operators:

  • additive operators +, - (unary and binary)
  • multiplicative operators /, *
  • bitwise operators &, |, ^, ~, <<, >>
  • comparison operators ==, !=, <, <=, >, >=
Dominant language
C++
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