# ebnf
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> A successor bnf parsing library of bnf parsing library, for parsing Extended Backus–Naur form context-free grammars
The code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/ChAoSUnItY/ebnf)
## Disclaimer:
There are various variants of EBNF, which uses somewhat different syntactic conventions. This library
takes [EBNF Evaluator](https://mdkrajnak.github.io/ebnftest/)'s example code as standard, which has
almost most syntactic conventions on Wikipedia's page.
## What does a valid EBNF grammar looks like?
The following example is taken from EBNF Evaluator:
```ebnf
filter ::= ( first ' ' )? ( number '~ ' )? ( number '-' number ) ( ' ' number '~' )? ( ' hz' )? ( ' b' )? ( ' i' )? ( ' a' )?;
first ::= #'[a-za-z][a-za-z0-9_+]*';
```
## How to use this library?
```rust
extern crate ebnf;
fn main() {
let source = r"
filter ::= ( first ' ' )? ( number '~ ' )? ( number '-' number ) ( ' ' number '~' )? ( ' hz' )? ( ' b' )? ( ' i' )? ( ' a' )?;
first ::= #'[a-za-z][a-za-z0-9_+]*';
number ::= digits ( ( '.' | ',' ) digits? )?;
digits ::= #'[0-9]+';
";
let result = ebnf::get_grammar(source);
}
```