Best practices for parsing files

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Reply to lurker,

> Hi.
> 
> I'm new to D but not to programming. I would like to write a small
> scripting engine using the great D programming language but I'm
> undecided on what techniques should use to parse source files.
> 
> Since slices seem to be a central feature of D I was thinking on
> reading the whole file in memory and use slices to build the syntax
> tree.
> 
> Does anyone have examples of parsing files using this method?
> 
> Any other methods I should consider?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Enki would be my choice if you don't mind using a code generator

http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/wiki/Enki

If you are feeling adventurous you can try dparse

http://www.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/dparser/dparse.d

It's not vary mature but it's kind of fun to play with.
(full disclosure: I wrote dparse)