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### Generating a Parser
A parser can be generated either [online](http://pegjs.majda.cz/online) in your browser or using the command line. Let's look at the second option. You need to follow these steps:
1. Install Java. This is necessary to run [Rhino](http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/) (which is bundled with PEG.js).
2. Generate the parser using `bin/pegjs` script on Unix or `bin/pegjs.bat` batch file on Windows.
For example, to generate a parser from an example grammar in the `examples/arithmetics.pegjs` file on Unix, run:
To generate a parser, you can use the [online generator](http://pegjs.majda.cz/online) or the command line. For the second option, you need to have Java installed. Than you can generate the parser using the `bin/pegjs` script on Unix or `bin/pegjs.bat` batch file on Windows:
$ bin/pegjs arithmeticsParser examples/arithmetics.pegjs
This command will create the parser in the `examples/arithmetics.js` file and will make it available in the `arithmeticsParser` global variable.
The `bin/pegjs` command has several options that influence the generator—to learn more about them, use the `--help` option.
**Note:** In the future, I will probably use [Narwhal](http://narwhaljs.org/) for the command-line version.
This command will create the parser from the `examples/arithmetics.pegjs` file and put in into the `examples/arithmetics.js` file. The generated parser will be available in the `arithmeticsParser` global variable. The generator has several useful options—to learn more about them, use `--help`.
### Using the Generated Parser
Let's assume that you want to use the parser in a web page. To do this, you need to:
1. Include the generated parser into your page:
<!-- Replace "example/arithmetics.js" with your parser file -->
<script src="example/arithmetics.js"></script>
This creates a variable with the parser object in the global scope (you can choose name of the variable when generating the parser).
2. Use the parser, i.e. call the `parse` method on the parser variable:
<script>
// Replace "arithmeticsParser" with your parser variable
document.write(arithmeticsParser.parse("2*(3+4)"));
</script>
The `parse` method of the generated parser will return either the result of the parsing (dependent on the actions you specified in the grammar) or throw `PEG.Parser.SyntaxError` exception if the input contains a syntax error. The exception has properties `message`, `line` and `column`, which contain details about the error.
To use the parser in a web page, follow the following example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Arithmetics Parser Example</title>
<script src="examples/arithmetics.js"></script> <!-- Include the parser. -->
<script>
function calculate(expression) {
/* Use the parser to compute a value of an arithmetic expression. */
var result;
try {
result = arithmeticsParser.parse(document.getElementById("expression").value);
} catch (e) {
result = e.message;
}
document.getElementById("result").innerText = result;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" id="expression" value="2*(3+4)">
<input type="button" id="calculate" value="Calculate" onclick="calculate();">
<div id="result"></div>
</body>
The `parse` method of the generated parser will return either the result of the parsing (dependent on the actions you specified in the grammar) or throw `PEG.Parser.SyntaxError` exception if the input contains a syntax error. The exception has properties `message`, `line` and `column`, which contain details about the error.
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