Parser(3)

✨ Parser(3) — the Hardware::Verilog::Parser moment ✨

okay so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation manual, bestie, and it's literally called Parser(3). sit down, hydrate, we're parsing Verilog 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Hardware::Verilog::Parser — a whole entire complete grammar for parsing Verilog code using perl. no cap. 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

use Hardware::Verilog::Parser;
$parser = new Hardware::Verilog::Parser;

$parser->Filename(@ARGV);

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 👑

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this module defines the complete grammar you need to parse any Verilog code. literally any. and here's the slay part: by overloading this grammar, you can super easily create perl scripts that run through Verilog code and do specific little tasks of your choosing. it's giving main character energy fr fr. ✨

for example, a Hierarchy.pm uses Hardware::Verilog::Parser to overload the grammar rule for module instantiations. this single modification will print out all instance names that occur in the file being parsed. which is lowkey so useful for creating an automatic build script, or a graphical hierarchical browser of a Verilog design. obsessed honestly. 🫶

⚠️ okay important: this module is currently in alpha release. all code is subject to change. bug reports are welcome! (please actually send them, we love that for us 😭)

🧚 DSLI information 🧚

D — Development Stage

• a — alpha testing

S — Support Level

• d — developer

L — Language used

• p — perl only, no compiler needed, should be platform independent

I — Interface Style

• O — Object oriented using blessed references and / or inheritance

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 2000 Greg London — All Rights Reserved. 💜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

email contact: greg42@bellatlantic.net

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Parse::RecDescent, version 1.77
• perl(1).

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil legend came to you courtesy of perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — and yes, we are closing out with the most iconic source line of all: Parser(3). bye bye, go parse something cute 🎀🦋💖