in reply to How can I convert this raw data to a hash?

If you replace : with => (or even a comma), then you'd have PON - Perl Object Notation, also known as actual Perl code. So having that you could then do something silly like prepend our $hash_ref = then string eval or write it to a file then require it:

dat.pl 

our $hash_ref =
{
  "genres" => [
    {
      "id" => 28,
      "name" => "Action"
    },
    {
      "id" => 12,
      "name" => "Adventure"
    },
    {
      "id" => 16,
      "name" => "Animation"
    },
    {
      "id" => 35,
      "name" => "Comedy"
    },
    {
      "id" => 80,
      "name" => "Crime"
    },
    {
      "id" => 99,
      "name" => "Documentary"
    },
    {
      "id" => 18,
      "name" => "Drama"
    },
    {
      "id" => 10751,
      "name" => "Family"
    },
    {
      "id" => 14,
      "name" => "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "id" => 36,
      "name" => "History"
    },
    {
      "id" => 27,
      "name" => "Horror"
    },
    {
      "id" => 10402,
      "name" => "Music"
    },
    {
      "id" => 9648,
      "name" => "Mystery"
    },
    {
      "id" => 10749,
      "name" => "Romance"
    },
    {
      "id" => 878,
      "name" => "Science Fiction"
    },
    {
      "id" => 10770,
      "name" => "TV Movie"
    },
    {
      "id" => 53,
      "name" => "Thriller"
    },
    {
      "id" => 10752,
      "name" => "War"
    },
    {
      "id" => 37,
      "name" => "Western"
    }
  ]
}

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show_dat.pl 

use Data::Dumper;
require 'dat.pl';

print Data::Dumper::Dumper($hash_ref);

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Re^2: How can I convert this raw data to a hash?
by afoken (Chancellor) on Dec 23, 2020 at 11:33 UTC
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      To be fair, accepting rando Storable input files has thia caveat. My only point that it was very close to defining a hash ref.
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