ANTLR Parsing and C++, Part 1: Introduction

ANTLR is one of the simplest and most powerful tools available for generating parsing code. This article explains how to generate parsing code with ANTLR and use the code in a C++ application. It introduces ANTLR's grammar files and the fundamental classes of the ANTLR runtime. This article also shows how to build and run a simple application that parses an arithmetic operation.