Running the parser executable

The parser executable currently only supports receiving data from stdin.

The following shows an example of building it, and running it with a few simple inputs:

> make
...
> echo "i3e" | ./main.out
3
> echo "5:hello" | ./main.out
"hello"
> echo "li2ei5ee" | ./main.out
[2, 5]
> echo "d5:helloi2e7:goodbyei67ee" | ./main.out
{"goodbye": 67, "hello": 2}
> echo "d3:fooli2e9:somethinge3:bard5:helloi2e7:goodbyei-1ee" | ./main.out
{"bar": {"goodbye": -1, "hello": 2}, "foo": [2, "something"]}

Running the tests

Catch2 is used for defining unit tests.

To run the tests:

• clone this repo
• download this Catch2 header file from the Catch2 repo and place it in a directory called external/ in the root of the cloned repo
• run the make tests command, which should build and run the test suite