Besides the PovRay source, there are two other things I have found that
might help 
both of you.

The  POB-SDK by Thomas Baier
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thbaier/pob_sdk.htm

ParPov by Christian Vogelgsang
This is a C++ library that can parse pov files and give you C++ objects.
Its first application is his program pov2rib utility for converting Pov
to renderman rib files.
http://www9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~cnvogelg/pov2rib/index.html


Jason Krah wrote:
> My problem is lack of data, since I need to witr my own file import filter I was
> considering trying to implement a simple POV importer.
> 
> If anyone would be willing to share some code, (not that I have anything anyone
> would probably want in return), it could save me alot of hassle tryiong to write a
> pov file parser.
> (I have never wirtten anything like a this before). If anyone can help me out with
> either
> thoery or code.. (How do I 'Parse' a file?) it would be greatly appreciated.


Scott Hill wrote:
>       If you find anything, will you let me know, too ? This is the one part of
>my modeller I'm not looking forward to writing.
>        In the mean-time, as Ken suggested, take a look at the POV source code
>(this is what I'll be doing), just remember to also read POVLEGAL and don't
>directly rip off the parser code.

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