Parsing a CSS file

I've currently been tasked with parsing a CSS file. What we want to do is parse the CSS file and take the styles and place them in a Structure. For example if there's a style named .MenuTop I want to create a new Structure called MenuTop and then have the style attributes from that style placed into the related structure.

Anyone have any ideas how this can be done?

Loops and regular expressions are probably your only option.

can you give me an example of what you mean?

Unfortunately not. Parsing a CSS file and putting each style and the style attributes into a nested structure is going to be quite time consuming and difficult.

You could try looping over the text and try to use carriage return/line breaks as a delimiter, but that assumes that the CSS is separating the syles with line feeds. And it doesn't start to address the situations where there are multiple names for a style (like "A.bold, A#bold {....}").

I'm not saying that his will be impossible, just very hard given the possible variations in the formatting of the CSS code.

It wouldn't be too hard would it? because as long as you start each style definition on a new line you could split the string because of the { character. Even if you don't start on a new line you could use the } as the delimitter.