Re: Flex & RPG

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Bartell skrev:
> If you think about how a parser works it has to check each and every
> character to see if it has discovered data, a begin delimiter, and end
> delimiter, etc.  The less characters it has to check the better IMO.
>   
If you want something that is not a fixed format, you will need to 
parse.  XML parsers vary but are generally quite fast.  But again, 
measure - the performance bottlenecks are usually not where you think 
when you start.

Personally, the comfort of being able to easily handle complex data 
structures transparently is worth a lot.