Method: WordGenerator#initialize

Defined in:
lib/conlang/wordgenerator.rb

#initialize(file) ⇒ WordGenerator

Constructor



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# File 'lib/conlang/wordgenerator.rb', line 11

def initialize(file)
  # Check file extension.
  unless file.match(/.*\.lang/)
    raise LangFileIOError,
          "Given file, \"#{file}\", is not a .lang file." 
  end

  # Check if files exist
  unless File.exist?(file)
    raise LangFileIOError,
          "File \"#{file}\" was not found." 
  end

  #   #   #   #   #   #   #   #   #

  # Input filename
  @lang_file = file

  # Bindings for SymbolSets and a variable 
  # to save the grammatical expression string.
  @bindings = {}
  @full_expression = ""

  # Bindings for replacements
  @replacements = {}

  # Parse .lang file
  parse_lang_file

  # Parse and evaluate grammatical expression
  eval_expression
end