david-von-tamar / clausewitz-interpreter

An interpreter for Paradox Interactive's Clausewitz engine's scripting language.

A .NET Interpreter for Clausewitz Engine

Introduction

This is a .NET interpreter for Clausewitz's scripting language. The interpreter helps with reading, writing, editing and querying the contents of standard Clausewitz files made by Paradox Interactive for their various soft-coded games.

This interpreter uses an abstract data tree structure when tokenizing the Clausewitz files, and offers pragma commands for sorting and indenting files, and enforces comment association to prevent their loss. With these features, it may be used as a cleanup tool for messy projects that were already made around Clausewitz files.

Dependencies

1. Currently set to .NET 6.0.
2. The CLI requires my ANSITerm library¹. If your IDE does not resolve this dependency from Nuget, then you may either git clone that library and attach it to this solution, or you may download the package Tamar.ANSITerm itself from Nuget's website.

I/O results

Input: input.txt

Output: output.txt

Notes:

1: I created my own ANSI-Compliant System.Console implementation because .NET's default System.Console could not display 24-bit colors properly on Linux terminals which support ANSI escape codes.