First pass at a markdown parser in Dart.

utils/markdown/markdown.dart

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+// Copyright (c) 2011, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/// Standalone script for parsing markdown from files and converting to HTML.
+#library('markdown');
+
+#import('lib.dart');
+
+main() {
+  final args = (new Options()).arguments;
+
+  if (args.length > 2) {
+    print('Usage:');
+    print('  dart_bin markdown.dart <inputfile> [<outputfile>]');

[Jennifer Messerly, 2011/11/23 22:25:41]

I think this is just "dart" now (dart_bin is going away/gone)

[Bob Nystrom, 2011/11/29 02:56:29]

Oh yeah. Fixed!

+    print('');
+    print('Reads a file containing markdown and converts it to HTML.');
+    print('If <outputfile> is omitted, prints to stdout.');
+    return;
+  }
+
+  final source = readFile(args[0]);
+  final html = markdownToHtml(source);
+
+  if (args.length == 1) {
+    print(html);
+  } else {
+    writeFile(args[1], html);
+  }
+}
+
+String readFile(String path) {
+  final file = new File(path);
+  file.openSync();
+  final length = file.lengthSync();
+  final buffer = new List<int>(length);
+  final bytes = file.readListSync(buffer, 0, length);
+  file.closeSync();
+  return new String.fromCharCodes(buffer);
+}
+
+void writeFile(String path, String text) {
+  final file = new File(path);
+  final stream = file.openOutputStream();
+  stream.write(text.charCodes());
+  stream.close();
+}