Re: Parsing data into an Array of Hashes

[kesterkester]

This is a little clunky, and could use some whitespace-stripping, but it'll get across the general idea:

The while loop loops over your data, and the split breaks your line into a list of comma- and equal sign-separated items.

This list is then converted into an anonymous hash with the {} operator, and that hash is pushed onto the array @structure.

Note that this will work incorrectly if your values or field names have "="s or ","s in them.

#!perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @structure;

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    push @structure, { split /,|=/ };
}

print Dumper \@structure;

__DATA__
Field1= a value,Field2= another value, Field3= yet another value
Field1= a second value,Field2= another second value, Field3= yet anoth
+er second value