Doesn't the data look close to a data structure already? A few regexes and an eval ...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Data::Dumper;
use strict;
use warnings;
local $/;
my $data=<DATA>;
$data=~s{\[}{[qw(}sg;
$data=~s{\]}{)],}sg;
eval '$data=\['.$data.']';
warn Data::Dumper->Dump([\$data],[qw(*data)]).' ';
__DATA__
[
abc
def
]
[
ghi
jkl
mno
]
and we have ...
$data = \\[
[
'abc',
'def'
],
[
'ghi',
'jkl',
'mno'
]
];
at pmdata.pl line 13, <DATA> chunk 1.
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|