Binary file grammar

[Artem Tarasov via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 12:29:43 UTC, wobbles wrote:
>
> While doing this I had the idea of implementing a more general 
> approach to this, using CTFE to build a struct / parserFunction 
> (Similar to Pegged [1] ).
> You describe at compile time how this binary file looks, and 
> then the parser handles everything else.
>
> Does anyone know of a good Binary Description Grammar out in 
> the wild? I'd rather not re-invent the wheel on that front, and 
> just use something standard. My Googling didn't come up with 
> something that could be considered "standard" however.
>
> Any ideas?
>

You should look into Construct (Python) - 
https://github.com/construct/construct
If you are not afraid of Haskell, also take a look at 
https://github.com/bos/attoparsec