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You're welcome. What exactly do you mean when you say "`do` a file"?
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Re^4: Storing/parsing perl data structure in/from a file
by Wilderness (Novice) on Jun 12, 2013 at 23:52 UTC
    I mean, when I do `do $file`, Perl would read the entire data structure at once and overwrite hash keys with the last value it reads. I wish there was a way for me to traverse through the data structure (which Perl would be doing internally to be able to find key collisions) manually.
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      It's correct that do file means slurp + eval but your data only defines an anonymous hash on the top level. 
      {
  alpha => {
    beta => {
      gamma => theta,
      delta => lambda,
    },
    beta => {
      gamma => zeta,
    },
  },
},

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      you need to add a variable name!

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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        How can I manually slurp + eval if I have a named hash?
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