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++.

See:

http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/filesQandT.html#povtootherformatsdifficulty

You would hardly have any advantage of using code from just parse.cpp 
and tokenize.cpp to write a POV-SDL reader - most parts of POV-Ray are 
needed for correctly interpreting a scene file.

The only practicable way to 'convert' a POV-Ray scene would be modifying 
POV-Ray itself to do so.

Christoph

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