最近在参与gnome项目,在与gnome-logs开发者David King交流时,他说道:"This task involves doing some extra parsing of the systemd catalog"。没有开发经验更没有太多英文专业词汇的我就搞不懂这里parse是什么意思了。有道词典将该词翻译为解析,可是这样太宽泛了啊。
最开始没有去搞懂这个词的意思,就直接看了bug相关的几个链接。这么一来,对这个词有了一定的认识。之后就直接google搜索how to parse && programming。在搜索出来的结果中看到stack overflow的一个解答非常精彩,在此记录一下。
问题是What's the best way to explain parsing to a new programmer?
答案是这样的:
I'd explain parsing as the process of turning some kind of data into another kind of data.
In practice, for me this is almost always turning a string, or binary data, into a data structure inside my Program.
For example, turning
":Nick!User@Host PRIVMSG #channel :Hello!"
into (C)
struct irc_line {
char *nick;
char *user;
char *host;
char *command;
char **arguments;
char *message;
} sample = { "Nick", "User", "Host", "PRIVMSG", { "#channel" }, "Hello!" }
stack overflow链接:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2933192/whats-the-best-way-to-explain-parsing-to-a-new-programmer