sub parse_brackets { my @parse; my @stack = \@parse; my $fewer_indents = 1; # Try setting this to 0 or 1 my $line_no; foreach my $line ( @_ ) { $line_no ++; $line =~ s/\A\s+//; $line =~ s/\s+\Z//; if ( $line !~ /\S/ ) { next; } elsif ( $line =~ s/\s*\{$// ) { my @line = split ' ', $line; my %node = ( type => shift(@line), ( @line ? ( name => shift(@line) ) : () ) ); push @{ $stack[0] }, \%node; unshift @stack, do { $node{contents} = [] }; } elsif ( $line eq '}' ) { shift @stack; scalar @stack or die("Too many right brackets at line $line_no"); } else { push @{ $stack[0] }, $line; } } scalar @stack == 1 or die("Too few right brackets at line $line_no"); return @parse; }