#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings FATAL => 'all'; use feature qw(say); use Test::Deep qw(eq_deeply); sub parse_treedump { my $lines = shift; my @lines = @$lines; my %obj; my @stack; my $parse_next_line = sub { my $line = shift @lines; my $key_indicator = $line =~ /\|-/ ? '|-' : '`-'; my $key_idx = index( $line, $key_indicator ); my $level = @stack; my $key_level = $key_idx / 3; if ($key_level < $level) { pop @stack until $key_level == ($level = @stack); } my $current_obj = \%obj; $current_obj = $current_obj->{$_} foreach @stack; if ($line =~ /(\w+)\s=\s(.*)$/ && $key_level == $level) { $current_obj->{$1} = $2 eq 'undef' ? undef : $2; } elsif ($line =~ /(\w+)\s\(no\selements\)/) { $current_obj->{$1} = [ ]; } elsif ($line =~ /(\w+)\s=$/) { $current_obj->{$1} = ''; } elsif ($line =~ /(\w+)/ && $key_level == $level) { push @stack, $1; $current_obj->{$1} = { }; } }; $parse_next_line->() while @lines; return \%obj } my $expected_hash = { one => 'two', three => { four => 'five', six => 'seven', eight => { nine => 'ten' }, eleven => [ ], twelve => undef, }, thirteen => 'fourteen' }; my $lines = []; while () { chomp; push @$lines, $_; } close DATA; my $output_hash = parse_treedump($lines); if (eq_deeply($output_hash, $expected_hash)) { say "OK"; } 1; __DATA__ |- one = two |- three | |- four = five | |- six = seven | |- eight | | `- nine = ten | |- eleven (no elements) | `- twelve = undef `- thirteen = fourteen