Lib.rs

Description

Simple parser of English sentences created for KMA Rust course. Parser can identify single words, numbers, punctuation symbols, whitespaces, sentences and whole text.

Usage

make run ARGS="-f test_files/test1.txt"

Output:

["Hello", ",", " ", "world", "!"]

Or to get help information:

make

Techical

Parser uses peg library. Rules:

• word() rule is used to parse words that contain only alphabetical symbols
• number() rule is used to parse numbers
• end_punctuation() rule is used to parse punctuation marks that can end a sentence: ... | . | ! | ?
• other_punctuation() rule is used to parse punctuation marks that can be inside a sentence: , | ; | : | -
• whitespace() rule is used to parse spaces or other identation symbols like '\t' | '\n' | '\r'
• sentence() rule is used to parse the whole sentence. It uses all three previous rules to parse the input string. Sentence must end in an end_punctuation
• text() rule can parse multiple sentences