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> On 6 Feb 2015, at 18:54, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Edward Hennessy <ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net> wrote:
>> What is more simple than name=value or name={value, value, value}? I
>> do no see how that is any more difficult to parse than the current
>> format.
> 
> Try writing a sscanf() format for it. Lots of tools easily handle records on lines with fixed numbers of fields separated by whitespace. But you have a more free-form grammar. Lisp S-expressions are even easier to parse, but they are still a significant barrier to tools other than Lisp.

The point is, you don't need to. Because the data file is itself a Lua script all you have to do is load it. You instantly have your data in memory in well defined structures, ready to be manipulated or passed to another language if you prefer.

Chris