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The next simplest is a parser that looks for a particular token:
sub lookfor_PLUS {
my $tokens = shift;
my $tok = first($tokens);
if (type($tok) eq "+") {
return ("+", rest($tokens));
} else {
return; # failure
}
}
sub lookfor_NUMBER {
my $tokens = shift;
my $tok = first($tokens);
if (type($tok) eq "NUMBER") {
return (value($tok), rest($tokens));
} else {
return; # failure
}
}
Note that the "value" returned by lookfor_NUMBER is the value of the number token it finds
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