On Mon, 19 May 2003, Greg Watson wrote: > Defining the tree from bottom-up is somewhat non-intuitive and > potentially confusing. It seems more natural to define the tree > structure top-down as follows: > > mainboard vendor/model > cpu p5 > southbridge vendor/model > end > southbridge vendor/model2 > superio vendor/model > ...config... > end > end > end OH, ok, you win. I had thought of this but hate the idea of writing a parser ... string handling in C is like walking on broken glass. > mainboard motorola/sandpoint > pmc altimus/mpc7500 > northbridge motorola/mpc107 > end > southbridge windbond/w83c553 > superio NSC/pc97307 > com1={1} > com2={1} > floppy=0 > lpt=1 > keyboard=1 > hwmonitor=1 > end > end > nvram > flash > end agreed, it's pretty. But NOBODY is allowed to suggest lexical scoping from indentation. That's not allowed :-) Greg, parser in the usual lex/yacc/C mode or .... I'll see if anybody's got parsers written in python. ron