The faster monadic parser combinator library for C#
This library provides the most useful Text Parsers, Stream Parsers, and Parser Combinators. All APIs are pure, immutable, and can combine with any others. Designed to utilize JIT Compiler optimizations, it realizes complete immutability and can parse infinitely recursive data structures.
This project is inspired by parsec, a monadic parser library for Haskell.
- Easy construction APIs with monads in C#
- Pure/Immutable/Functional framework in C#
- Replace regular expressions in your code (applicable from smallest to largest)
- Most readable API source code
- Strictly typed parsers/combinators that support natural type inference
- A lot of reasonable built-in parsers/combinators
- Supports parsing infinitely recursive data structures
- Supports full backtracking: Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) style parsing strategy
- Supports parsing streams with any token type (e.g., string, char stream, byte array, binary stream)
- Supports tokenization
- Supports partial parsing
- Supports nullable reference types (with C# 8.0 or later)
- Supports Source Link
- No additional dependencies
- Faster running
- Just enough error messages
- No left-recursion support
- No packrat parsing support (because it increases parsing time in most cases)
dotnet-cli:
$ dotnet add package ParsecSharp
NuGet Package Manager Console:
> Install-Package ParsecSharp
PackageReference:
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="ParsecSharp" Version="*" />
</ItemGroup>
Download manually:
- netstandard2.0 (compatible with net461 or later, uap, xamarin, and more)
- netstandard2.1 (compatible with netcoreapp, net5.0 or later, with some performance improvements and additional implementations that depend on new runtime features)
Requires C# 7.3 or later for generic overloading resolution.
- Add the package reference to your project.
- Add the using directives:
using static ParsecSharp.Parser;
andusing static ParsecSharp.Text;
to your code. - Parse your all.
Implementation examples:
- JsonParser implementation
- CsvParser implementation
- Arithmetic expression parser implementation
- PEG parser generator implementation
Documentation is included in UnitTest code (jp).
If you want more information, read the API source code, all is there.
Feel free to create an Issue!
This software is released under the MIT License, see LICENSE.