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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Parsec</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Original author(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Daan Leijen, Paolo Martini, Antoine Latter</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Herbert Valerio Riedel, Derek Elkins, Antoine Latter, Roman Cheplyaka, Ryan Scott</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">November&nbsp;2, 2006<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2006-11-02</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">3.1.17.0
/ April&nbsp;5, 2024<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2024-04-05</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Repository_(version_control)" title="Repository (version control)">Repository</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/haskell/parsec">github<wbr>.com<wbr>/haskell<wbr>/parsec</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Haskell" title="Haskell">Haskell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, <a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Haskell_Platform" title="Haskell Platform">Haskell Platform</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Parser_combinator" title="Parser combinator">Parser combinator</a>, <a href="Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">library</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="BSD_licenses" title="BSD licenses">BSD-2-clause</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec">hackage<wbr>.haskell<wbr>.org<wbr>/package<wbr>/parsec</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Parsec</b> is a <a href="Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">library</a> for writing <a href="Parser" class="mw-redirect" title="Parser">parsers</a> written in the <a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming language</a> <a href="Haskell" title="Haskell">Haskell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is based on higher-order <a href="Parser_combinator" title="Parser combinator">parser combinators</a>, so a complicated parser can be made out of many smaller ones.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been reimplemented in many other languages, including <a href="Erlang_(programming_language)" title="Erlang (programming language)">Erlang</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Elixir_(programming_language)" title="Elixir (programming language)">Elixir</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="OCaml" title="OCaml">OCaml</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Racket_(programming_language)" title="Racket (programming language)">Racket</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="F_Sharp_(programming_language)" title="F Sharp (programming language)">F#</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="Imperative_programming" title="Imperative programming">imperative programming</a> languages <a href="C_Sharp_(programming_language)" title="C Sharp (programming language)">C#</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Because a parser combinator-based program is generally slower than a <a href="Parser_generator" class="mw-redirect" title="Parser generator">parser generator</a>-based program, Parsec is normally used for small <a href="Domain-specific_language" title="Domain-specific language">domain-specific languages</a>, while <a href="Happy_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy (software)">Happy</a> is used for <a href="Compiler" title="Compiler">compilers</a> such as the <a href="Glasgow_Haskell_Compiler" title="Glasgow Haskell Compiler">Glasgow Haskell Compiler</a> (GHC).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Other Haskell parser combinator libraries that have been derived from Parsec include Megaparsec<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Attoparsec.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Parsec is <a href="Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> released under the BSD-3-Clause license.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Example">Example</h2></div>
<p>Parsers written in Parsec start with simpler parsers, such as ones that recognize certain strings, and combine them to build a parser with more complicated behavior. For example, <code>digit</code> parses a digit, and <code>string</code> parses a specific string (like <code>"hello"</code>).
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Parser combinator libraries like Parsec provide utility functions to run the parsers on real values. A parser to recognize a single digit from a string can be split into two functions: one to create the parser, and a <code>main</code> function that calls one of these utility functions (<code>parse</code> in this case) to run the parser:</p><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-haskell mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="kr">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">Text.Parsec</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">-- has general parsing utility functions</span>
<span class="kr">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">Text.Parsec.Char</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">-- contains specific basic combinators</span>
<span class="kr">type</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">Parser</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">Stream</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">s</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">m</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">Char</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">=&gt;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">ParsecT</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">s</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">u</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">m</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">String</span>

<span class="nf">parser</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">::</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">Parser</span>
<span class="nf">parser</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">string</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"hello"</span>

<span class="nf">main</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">::</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kt">IO</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">()</span>
<span class="nf">main</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">print</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">parse</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">parser</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"&lt;test&gt;"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"hello world"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1">-- prints 'Right "hello"'</span>
</pre></div><p>We define a <code>Parser</code> type to make the type signature of <code>parser</code> easier to read. If we wanted to alter this program, say to read either the string <code>"hello"</code> or the string <code>"goodbye"</code>, we could use the operator <code>&lt;|&gt;</code>, provided by the <code>Alternative</code> typeclass, to combine two parsers into a single parser that tries either:</p><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-haskell mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span class="nf">parser</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="ow">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">string</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"hello"</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">&lt;|&gt;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">string</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"goodbye"</span>
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