Re: Matching String Value with Hash Key

"Does this make sense? it was hard for me to explain never mind write"

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure: hopefully, I got the gist of it. Here's some issues I found:

There's some code that just won't work, e.g. a number of regexes have \s but the data you're trying to match (as shown) has 0, 1 or 2 spaces.
You have a complicated way of determining parent and child config: was there a reason you didn't just look for PARENT CONFIG and CHILD CONFIG.
In your description you have: e.g. "a hash called results{keyid}" — that's not the name of a hash, the key keyid appears nowhere in the code, there's a $results{$key} in the code but %results is neither declared nor populated.
Three times in your description, you have: "$results{Łkey}{$dist_attr}" — obviously, your '$' key works; whatever sigil you intended when you entered 'Ł' is almost certainly wrong; there's nothing like that in the code you posted so I can't even guess what was intended.
In your code, you have a regex where you're matching and capturing the literal text 'completion' — you may have intended to capture something else; regardless, the captured data (which would have been $2) is not used anywhere.
There maybe others.

Here's a script that captures the data you want. I'll leave you to format the output.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

my $config_file = 'pm_1056046_parse_config.txt';
my $gen = 'parent';
my %cfg;

{
    local $/ = "DEPLOYED\n";
    open my $config_fh, '<', $config_file;

    while (<$config_fh>) {
        $gen = 'child' if /CHILD CONFIG/;
        /(\w+)\s+HOLDS\s+(\w+)/;
        $cfg{$gen}{$1}{holds} = $2 if $gen eq 'child';
        push @{$cfg{parent}{$1}{equals}} => /(total_\w+)/g if $gen eq 
+'parent';
    }

    close $config_fh;
}

for (keys %{$cfg{child}}) {
    print "$_ : @{$cfg{parent}{$cfg{child}{$_}{holds}}{equals}}\n";
}
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Output:

$ pm_1056046_parse_config.pl
first_distribution : total_finish total_cancel
second_distribution : total_cancel
third_distribution : total_finish total_cancel
forth_distribution : total_dist total_finish total_cancel
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-- Ken

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Re^2: Matching String Value with Hash Key by Mark.Allan (Sexton) on Sep 29, 2013 at 10:22 UTC
Ken Thanks for your input, I'll pick up on this tomorrow but one thing I failed to highlight is that ###parent config#### and #####child config##### don't actually exist in the file, it's was merely me defining the structure which I forgot to mention The exact file looks likes this DEPLOY : SWG_Lower HOLDS SWG_Depot EQUALS:= total_dist: completion= SUCCESS total_finish: completion= SUCCESS total_cancel:completion=SUCCESS DEPLOYED DEPLOY: LOADED_Lower HOLDS SWG_Depot EQUALS:= total_finish: completion= SUCCESS total_cancel: completion=SUCCESS DEPLOYED DEPLOY: CONFIG_Lower HOLDS SWG_Depot EQUALS:= total_cancel: completion=SUCCESS DEPLOYED DEPLOY first_distribution HOLDS LOADED_Lower DEPLOYED DEPLOY: second_distribution HOLDS CONFIG_Lower ; DEPLOYED DEPLOY : third_distribution HOLDS LOADED_Lower; DEPLOYED DEPLOY : forth_distribution HOLDS SWG_Lower ; DEPLOYED [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Matching String Value with Hash Key by kcott (Archbishop) on Sep 30, 2013 at 05:36 UTC
"... one thing I failed to highlight is that ###parent config#### and #####child config##### don't actually exist in the file, it's was merely me defining the structure which I forgot to mention" You actually wrote: "I have the following text file of configuration details." It's important to pay attention to details. I can only provide advice on dealing with the input you describe: I can't guess that some of what you provide is correct and other parts are not. Furthermore, the computer can only deal with the input (as you describe it) in your code; for instance, any attempt to match either version of the input with the pattern `'#parent config#'` would fail. You may think I'm being pedantic; however, if you look back to the issues I originally raised, you'll see that all six of them are related to a lack of attention to detail. For your latest version of your input, you can modify my code by changing `$gen = 'child' if /CHILD CONFIG/;` [download] to `$gen = 'child' unless /EQUALS/;` [download] and get the same output values. -- Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Matching String Value with Hash Key by Mark.Allan (Sexton) on Oct 01, 2013 at 17:39 UTC
ken, apologies for the sloppy post but its sorted now and your assistance was invaluable as ever thanks again,	[reply]