sub { ### this sub works well.

# splits them up into stuff like "{name => 'name222',colour => 'yellow'}" 
my @split = (split /\Q},{/, $_[0]); 

my @loop; 
foreach (@split) { 
s/^{//; 
s/}$//; 
my $hash; 
my $hash1; 
my @tmp = split /,/, $_; # now lets split them at ', 

my @subloop; 

foreach my $tmp (@tmp) { 
my $hash; 
my ($name,$value) = split / => /, $tmp; 

$hash->{name} = $name; 
$hash->{value} = $value; 
$hash->{value} =~ s/^\'//; 
$hash->{value} =~ s/\'$//; 
push @subloop, $hash; 

} 
#$hash1->{name} = "subtotal"; 
#$hash1->{value} = "999"; 
#push(@subloop, $hash1); 

push @loop, { subloop => \@subloop }; 
} 

return { split_loop => \@loop }; 

}