Re: [GD-General] Text file parsing

[Ed S. <ed...@sw...>]

"Marc Fascia" <mf...@pu...> writes:
> I wonder how people handle file parsing in their projects.
Here's the excerpt from the gloriuos Scripting thread:

[Evan Bell]
  To avoid creating Yet Another Crappy Parser I used flex & bison to do 
  the hard work of creating the script compiler.

[Brian Hook]
  Eewww.  I'm leaning towards just using Lua as my syntax for, er, 
  everything, and letting it handle the heavy lifting.


Most people mentioned XML. But if you ask a Lua fan - he'll tell ya
that Lua is XML with a human face ;) 

-- Ed