human_2.0 wrote:
> I want to make a povray scene file reader to convert the files to a
> different format.  I thought I could do it from scratch, but I'm finding
> little catches all over.  I've not studied lexers much.  I was just
> thinking that writing a custom binary with povray's own parse.cpp and
> tokenize.cpp would probably be the easiest solution, and have it print out
> a list of obects or something like that.
> 
> Would this be easier for someone unfamiliar with the povray source code than
> writing my own parser?  I code in Perl mostly but can read c++.

Please read the POV-Ray license. You are prohibited to use POV-Ray source 
code outside POV-Ray. As such, you will have to write your own parser, 
however, I cannot see why you would want to write a parser that masters all 
features of POV-Ray. i.e. just for meshes a parser would be really easy to 
write though.

	Thorsten, POV-Team

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