{ name = "new" sub_name = "SUBTITLE" values = { 1, 2, 3; } input_values = { 1, 2, 3; 5, 5, 6 10, 12, 3} type = input intval = 100 } Can some one help me to write the parser for the above format? I am trying something like below and this doesn’t seem to work for me. template <typename Iterator> struct keys_and_values : qi::grammar<Iterator, mapDef()> { keys_and_values() : keys_and_values::base_type(query) { using namespace qi; query = '{' >> *lit(' ') >> pair >> *(lit(' ') >> *lit(' ') >> pair) >> *lit(' ') >> '}'; pair = key >> -(*lit(' ') >> "=" >> *lit(' ') >> value); key = +char_("a-zA-Z0-9_") ; value = +char_("a-zA-Z0-9") | lexeme[('{' >> +char_("\"@+*.( , ) $ a-zA-Z0-9_ -") >> '}')] | lexeme[('"' >> +char_("\"@+*.( , ) $ a-zA-Z0-9_ -") >> '"')]; } qi::rule<Iterator, mapDef()> query; qi::rule<Iterator, std::pair<std::string, std::string>()> pair; qi::rule<Iterator, std::string()> key, value; }; Any help would be highly appriciated. Regards, UJ