Tokenizing and parsing files

[James Reynolds]

Over the weekend I tried to find the most elegant solution to 
tokenizing and parsing POV-Ray scene files, which uses a c-like 
scripting language.  I came to the conclusion that there are many 
solutions out there, but in trying to understand them it seems 
easiest (and take as much time to implement) if I just wrote my own. 
(I've never studied lexical analysis, but I understand the basic 
concepts).

Does anyone have any opinions on tokenizing and parsing files?
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Thanks,

James Reynolds
University of Utah
Student Computing Labs
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801-585-9811