Course of Raku / Regexes and grammars / Grammars

Creating grammars

You have seen that a grammar groups named tokens together. This section looks at the two things that make a grammar work: the special TOP rule that describes the whole input, and the .parse method that runs the grammar against a string and gives you a match object back.

Topics in this section

• The TOP rule
• Parsing with parse

Practice

Complete the quiz that covers the contents of this section.

• Quiz — Creating grammars

Exercises

This section contains 3 exercises. Examine all the topics of this section before doing the coding practice.

1. Parse a full name
2. Parse a hashtag
3. Parse a time

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