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Originally Posted by ProdigySim Someone asked me what they thought was a good language for parsing KeyValues for some standalone application. The #1 factor that came to mind was "Does a parser exist for that language?" Turns out it's harder to find parsers than I thought. I wanted to collect the results of my search in one place, so here goes: Note: I haven't used or reviewed most of these personally C++ Valve KeyValues Implementation: KeyValues.h KeyValues.cpp - LOW portability (Requires lots of hl2sdk by default) C++ SM TextParsers Implementation: TextParsers.h TextParsers.cpp - MEDIUM portability (Linked version is psychonic's GDC fork port) Node/Javascript: keyvalues-node - Should be portable, but their output format is questionable. PHP: SourceBans KeyValues/SMC_Parser implementation C#: SteamKit implementation Those are my finds thus far. I was hoping for a Python implementation personally, but I couldn't find one. Also: If anyone can give me formatted links for the bitbucket/sm repos that give latest version instead of revisioned version that would be helpful I think.

Valve has an updated version of their KeyValues parser in the Source SDK 2013: KeyValues.h KeyValues.cpp