[ANN] Shallow Parser for t-SQL

[Shashank Date]

Shallow Parser for t-SQL
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A library to shallow parse t-SQL statements and generate a simple
data-structure (array of TSQLStmt objects) for further consumption.
t-SQL is the procedural language for Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

Version
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0.0.1 (2005/04/09) *** alpha ***

Installation
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Download and unzip the zip file in any temporary directory.
Execute the included "install.rb" script:

C:\temp\release\> ruby install.rb

License
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Ruby's

Dependencies
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None

URL
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http://rubyforge.org/projects/tsql-analyzer/

Example Usage
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require 'tsql_shparser'

shp = TSQL_ShParser.new.parse("select col1, col2, col3 from Table1")

p shp[0].all_columns.to_arr #-> ['COL1','COL2','COL3']
p shp[0].all_tables.to_arr #-> ['TABLE1']

shp[0].list_select_expressions.map{|e| p e.to_arr}
#-> [["COL1", ","], ["COL2", ","], ["COL3"]]

Warning
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This is an alpha release. Plenty of bugs !

BUG REPORTS
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Please make sure that the t-SQL script that exposes a bug, parses
correctly under Query Analyzer before submitting a report.

Author
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Shashank Date
shank...@yahoo.com