Worked too long on this today

collects/scriblib/bibtex.rkt

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #lang racket/base
-(require racket/function)
+(require racket/function
+         racket/list)
 
 (define-syntax-rule
   (define-bibtex this-generate-bib this-cite bib-pth)
@@ -10,7 +11,86 @@
     (define this-cite
       (curry cite bibtex-db))))
 
+(require parser-tools/lex
+         parser-tools/yacc
+         (prefix-in : parser-tools/lex-sre))
+
+(define-empty-tokens toks (AT LBRACE RBRACE COMMA EQUALS HASH EOF))
+(define-tokens rtoks (NUM TAG STR))
+(define bibtex-lex
+  (lexer-src-pos
+   ["@" (token-AT)]
+   ["{" (token-LBRACE)]
+   ["}" (token-RBRACE)]
+   ["," (token-COMMA)]
+   ["=" (token-EQUALS)]
+   ["#" (token-HASH)]
+   [(:: "%" (complement (:: any-string #\newline any-string)))
+    (return-without-pos (bibtex-lex input-port))]
+   [(:+ (char-range "0" "9"))
+    (token-NUM (string->number lexeme))]
+   [(:: alphabetic (complement (:: any-string (:or whitespace (char-set "{},")) any-string)))
+    (token-TAG (string-downcase lexeme))]
+   #;[(:: #\" (complement (:: any-string #\" any-string)) #\")
+    (token-STR (substring lexeme 1 (sub1 (string-length lexeme))))]
+   [(eof) (token-EOF)]
+   [any-char (return-without-pos (bibtex-lex input-port))]))
+
+(define bibtex-parse
+  (parser
+   (src-pos)
+   (tokens toks rtoks)
+   (end EOF)
+   (start db)
+   (error
+    (lambda (tok-ok? tok-name tok-value start-pos end-pos)
+      (error 'bibtex-parse
+             "Received ~a token ~a(~s) at ~a:~a-~a:~a"
+             (if tok-ok? "valid" "invalid")
+             tok-name tok-value
+             (position-line start-pos) (position-col start-pos)
+             (position-line end-pos) (position-col end-pos))))
+   (grammar
+    (db [() empty]
+        [(entry db) (cons $1 $2)])
+    (entry
+     [(AT TAG LBRACE elems RBRACE)
+      (vector $2 $4)])
+    (elems
+     [() empty]
+     [(elem) (list $1)]
+     [(elem COMMA elems) (cons $1 $3)])
+    (elem
+     [(TAG EQUALS val)
+      (vector $1 $3)]
+     [(TAG)
+      $1]
+     [(NUM)
+      (number->string $1)])
+    (val
+     [(NUM) $1]
+     [(STR) $1]
+     [(TAG) $1]
+     [(LBRACE bvals RBRACE)
+      $2]
+     [(val HASH val)
+      (cons $1 $3)])
+    (bval
+     [(val) $1]
+     [(COMMA) ","])
+    (bvals
+     [() empty]
+     [(bval bvals) (cons $1 $2)]))))
+
 (define (path->bibdb pth)
+  (printf "~a\n"
+          (with-input-from-file
+              pth
+            (λ ()
+              (port-count-lines! (current-input-port))
+              (bibtex-parse
+               (λ () (bibtex-lex (current-input-port)))))))
+  (error 'path->bibdb pth)
   #f)
 
 (define (generate-bib db style)