Is the ANTLR parser generator best for a C++ app with constrained memory?

Question

I\'m looking for a good parser generator that I can use to read a custom text-file format in our large commercial app. Currently this particular file format is read with a handm

Answer 1

Realistically, if your grammar is relatively small, and doesn't contain many ambiguities or parsing complexities then it shouldn't matter if you use a recursive descent parser or a shift-reduce parser.

I would say look at ANTLR and Spirit, also look at Flex and Bison. There are other, less known parsers like Coco/R (contains generators for a lot of languages, including C++) also.