Re: String split problem

[ZlR]

Here's how i do that :

my $str ="
[India]
Captain1 = Dhoni
Batsman1 = Sachin
Bowler1 = Zaheer
[Aussie]
Captain = Ponting
Batsman = Clarke
Bowler = Warne
[Aussie]
Captain = Hussey
Batsman = Waugh
Bowler = Mcgrath";



my @l = split "\n", $str ; 
my $key ; 
my %rez ; 
for my $it (@l) {
    next if $it =~ m /^$/ ; 
    if ($it =~ m/^\[(.*)\]/) { $key = $1 }
    else { 
        my @t = split "=", $it ; 
        $rez{$key}{ $t[0] } = $t[1] 
    }
}


use Data::Dumper ; 
print Dumper \%rez ;

It's really basic and straightforward but a least you immediately know what's going on.

edit : did not see that the aussie section was duped, you could always if define $rez{$key} etc ...