S-Expressions   are one convenient way to parse and store data.



Task

Write a simple reader and writer for S-Expressions that handles quoted and unquoted strings, integers and floats.

The reader should read a single but nested S-Expression from a string and store it in a suitable datastructure (list, array, etc).

Newlines and other whitespace may be ignored unless contained within a quoted string.

“()”   inside quoted strings are not interpreted, but treated as part of the string.

Handling escaped quotes inside a string is optional;   thus “(foo"bar)” maybe treated as a string “foo"bar”, or as an error.

For this, the reader need not recognize “\” for escaping, but should, in addition, recognize numbers if the language has appropriate datatypes.

Languages that support it may treat unquoted strings as symbols.

Note that with the exception of “()"” (“\” if escaping is supported) and whitespace there are no special characters. Anything else is allowed without quotes.

The reader should be able to read the following input

((data "quoted data" 123 4.5)
 (data (!@# (4.5) "(more" "data)")))
and turn it into a native datastructure. (see the Pike, Python and Ruby implementations for examples of native data structures.)

The writer should be able to take the produced list and turn it into a new S-Expression.
Strings that don't contain whitespace or parentheses () don't need to be quoted in the resulting S-Expression, but as a simplification, any string may be quoted.



Extra Credit

Let the writer produce pretty printed output with indenting and line-breaks.




 
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
 
  public class SNode
    {
        private List<SNode> _items;
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public IReadOnlyCollection<SNode> Items { get { return _items.AsReadOnly(); } }
        public SNode()
        {
            this._items = new List<SNode>();
        }
        public SNode(string name):this()
        {
            this.Name=name;
        }
        public void AddNode(SNode node)
        {
            this._items.Add(node);
        }      
    }
 
    public class SNodeFull : SNode
    {
        private bool _isLeaf;
        public bool IsLeaf { get => _isLeaf; }
        public SNodeFull(bool isLeaf) : base()
        {
            this._isLeaf = isLeaf;
        }
 
        public SNodeFull(string name, bool isLeaf) : base(name)
        {
            this._isLeaf = isLeaf;
        }
 
        public SNodeFull RootNode { get; set; }
 
        public void AddNode(SNodeFull node)
        {
            base.AddNode(node);
            node.RootNode = this;
        }
    }
 
 