Good Evening

I am attempting to write a program which perform more complex diff's of a certain file type. The file holds a syntax which i would like to parse similar to XML::Parse's tree view.

This is the code im looking to parse. It is just a snippit but it should be enough
(object Attribute
        tool           "VC++"
        name           "default__Module-Spec"
        value          (list Attribute_Set
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "InternalMap"
            value          (value Text 
|*:AUTO:AUTO
|
            ))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "ExportMap"
            value          (value Text 
|*:AUTO:AUTO
|
            ))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "InitialSourceIncludes"
            value          (value Text 
|"stdafx.h"
            ))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "InitialHeaderIncludes"
            value          (value Text ""))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "Copyright"
            value          (value Text "Copyright (C) 1991 - 1999 Rati
+onal Software Corporation"))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "KindSet"
            value          (list Attribute_Set
                (object Attribute
                tool           "VC++"
                name           "(none)"
                value          300)
                (object Attribute
                tool           "VC++"
                name           "DLL"
                value          301)
                (object Attribute
                tool           "VC++"
                name           "EXE"
                value          302)
                (object Attribute
                tool           "VC++"
                name           "MIDL"
                value          303)))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "Kind"
            value          ("KindSet" 300))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "BodyExtensions"
            value          (value Text 
|.cpp
|.cxx
|.inl
            ))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "HeaderExtensions"
            value          (value Text 
|.h
|.hpp
|.hxx
|inl
            ))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "ProjectFolders"
            value          (value Text 
|Source Files
|Header Files
            ))
            (object Attribute
            tool           "VC++"
            name           "UsePathMap"
            value          FALSE)))

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Any help is appreciated. Esp if someone could identify what this pattern is called, or a module that will help me parse it. It looks lisp ish and even python esq but im not a pro in either of those languages so i may be totaly off.

Thank You

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