in reply to Re^3: Perl reference array
in thread Perl reference array

> There is no perl "build in " feature to solve this.

Not that I'm aware of in Perl's syntax.

Perl is very flexible in parsing, combining regex and split is powerful.

Or suing map to translate lists.

But without knowing your task/grammar it's speculative coding (like do your fields allow only integers or strings with whitespace?)

There might be some core modules allowing input formats supporting this somehow.

Maybe YAML or JSON ... (?)

CSV should, but isn't core.

Cheers Rolf
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