Parser Module

Copyright (c) 1999 Dan Campbell <parser@danofsteel.com>. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


Some long-time REXX programmers switching to Perl find it difficult 
to give up REXX's template-based parsing abilities.  This module is 
my attempt to provide such parsing in Perl.  The documentation assumes 
a familiarity with REXX parse statements.


I tested this module on OS/2, Linux (RedHat 5.2), AIX, and OS/390.  It
should work exactly the same on any platform.


Installation:
-------------


  Linux, UNIX, etc.:
  ------------------

  tar -xzf String-Parser-1.00.tar.gz

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install


  AIX:
  ----

  zcat String-Parser-1.00.tar.Z | tar -xzf -

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install


  OS/390:
  -------

  pax -z -o from=ISO8859-1,to=IBM-1047 -rf String-Parser-1.00.tar.Z

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install


  OS/2,  Windows, etc.:
  ---------------------

  unzip Parser-1.00.zip

  Put the file 'Parser.pm' in one of your Perl lib directories, or use
  one of the many ways to get Perl programs to find modules.  I've read
  that it's possible use the 'UNIX' method above to install modules on
  OS/2 or Windows, but I've never done it.