I Need a Human Readable, Yet Parse-able Document Format

Question

I\'m working on one of those projects where there are a million better ways to accomplish what I need but I have no choice and I have to do it this way. Here it is:

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Answer 1

I'm just gonna say that an INI string is pretty readable:

Pet_Name = "Fred"

But, you could always roll your own format. Something like:

Key: ValueValueValueValueValueValue
Key: ValueValue

Basically, you would explode the string by newlines, look for text strings infront of colons and use that as the key, and the data after the colon and before the newline is the value.