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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by matheusmoreira on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:35PM (#30717407)
How does it handle length-prefixed data?

  length u32
  data   u32[length]
This is a huge problem for traditional parsers since the input modifies the grammar dynamically.
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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by boardwaalk on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:45PM (#30717466)
It’s right here: https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::ParseBinary#Meta-Primitives
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Re:Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary st... by matheusmoreira on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:55PM (#30717533)
I see, you can pass in a function that computes the length. I wonder if a declarative or formal solution will ever exist.
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