Re: Create a hash by spliting string

[Utilitarian]

You have the basics of it already. you can split on a regular expression, so a character class that included both colon ":" and semi-colon ";" would split your string into a list of 6 elements.

At this point, knowing that any list with an even number of elements can be assigned to a hash is important because that's how you'd complete the task, simply by assigning the output of the split to %hash

[sundialsvc4]

Whereas I, being forever distrustful of data, would split the string on semicolons, and then, in a loop, split each piece separately.   And, my code would verify that each of these splits generated exactly two pieces, and it would croak if ever it did not.   So, this would not only accomplish the task of splitting the string, but also confirm that it is well-formed.

Yup... guess I’m a Perl Dork.

[Utilitarian]

Hardly a dork, after all verifying your data is valid before throwing it into a structure is the correct thing to do. However I suspect our Anonymous friend isn't writing production code here