Wow, seems like John Ousterhout really loved LISP

I was so kind to format your data with emacs

$kl_string=<<__KL__
{
  {Register {
    {CumulativeActive(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeSuccessfullyEstablished(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeSuccessfullyCompleted(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeUnsuccessful(calls)(In) 0}
  }
 }
}
{
  {
    {Make Cal l}
    {
      {CumulativeActive(calls)(In) 0}
      {CumulativeSuccessfullyEstablished(calls)(In) 0}
      {CumulativeSuccessfullyCompleted(calls)(In) 0}
      {CumulativeUnsuccessful(calls)(In) 0}
    }
  }
}
{
  {Initiating {
    {CumulativeA ctive(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeSuccessfullyEstablished(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeSuccessfullyCompleted(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeUnsuccessful(calls)(In) 0}
  }
 }
}
{
  {Summary {
    {CumulativeActive(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeSuccessfullyEstablished(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeSuccessfullyCompleted(calls)(In) 0}
    {CumulativeUnsuccessful(calls)(In) 0}
  }
 }
}
__KL__
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and as it turns out it's a mixture of nested lists and keyed lists.¹

What's worse, I can't easily see a way to automatically distinguish between the two ...

(OK it's more than a decade that I used TCL for the last time.)

So w/o deeper information of the schema I'd rather recommend to try to find a JSON interface for TCL.

¹) I suppose you want a nested data structure with Perl arrays and hashes

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