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He's speaking of building a SAX-style parser for your file format. Recognize tokens, call functions when you find them, and keep track of context with package variables...

Another alternative might be Parse::RecDescent or the YAPP module...

In reply to Re^3: Logic trouble parsing a formatted text file into hashes of hashes (of hashes, etc.) by SpanishInquisition
in thread Logic trouble parsing a formatted text file into hashes of hashes (of hashes, etc.) by idnopheq

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