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I built a grammar to tackle these sorts of problems when I had trouble writing formal grammar notations for my binary data format. It's even got a syntax highlighter.

https://dogma-lang.org/

So far it's been able to describe 90% of what's out there. Some examples:

- 802.3 layer 2 Ethernet: https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma/blob/master/v1/examples/8...

- Microsoft ICO format: https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma/blob/master/v1/examples/i...

- Android Dex v39: https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma/blob/master/v1/examples/d...

- IPv4: https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma/blob/master/v1/examples/i...

- DNS query: https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma/blob/master/v1/examples/d...

- Microsoft Minidump: https://github.com/kstenerud/dogma/blob/master/v1/examples/m...

- Concise Binary Encoding: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...

- Concise Text Encoding: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ct...

parent kstenerud 2 years ago

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