#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my %globize = ('=' => '={', ':' => '}:{', '' => '}'); #my %globize = ('?What here?' => '{', ':' => '}:{', '' => '}'); my (@globs, %hash); while () { my ($globule, $value) = split / /; chomp $value; $globule =~ s{ ([=:] | \z) }{$globize{$1}}xmsg; #$globule =~ s{ (\A | : | \z) }{$globize{$1}}xmsg; print qq{'$globule'}."\n"; @globs = glob $globule; $hash{$_} = $value for @globs; } use Data::Dump; dd \%hash; __DATA__ Prefix1:A,B:c,d value1=10 Prefix2:A:b,c:1,2 value2=20 Prefix3:A:*:1,2 value3=30 Prefix4:A:*:1,2 value4a=10|value4b=20 Prefix5,Prefix6:A:*:1,7 value5=10