Best practices for parsing files

[Lutger]

lurker wrote:
> Both suggestions are very interesting and I'll be evaluating them; but what I was
> hoping was something more on the line of DMD's parser (been insanely fast): A
> hand-written parser. We also thought of translating it to D just as an exercise to
> learn how it works.

Somebody did that already, it's not been updated for a couple of months 
though:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/dparser