[nzlug] Lexical analyser and Parser in Java

[Peter Butler]

> I am planning to write a EDI parser in Java. Please
> share any suggestions or experience on a good lexical
> analyser and parser in Java?
> YACC and LEX worked very well for me for C/Unix many
> many years ago.
>   
I used JavaCC (https://javacc.dev.java.net/) a few years ago and found 
it to be very powerful.  It includes some very useful utility classes 
for parse tree generation and transformation.  The documentation and 
tutorials were also very good.

Cheers

Peter