Dear All,

Many thanks for your perls of wisdom.

Here is a crude prototype of what I am interested in.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1138867

use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk::ObjScanner;  
my @depth = {};
open (DATA, "data.txt");#same as what was in the example above
while(<DATA>)
  {
  
  /\S/ or last;
  chomp $_;
  /([\| ]*?[\|`]-- )?(.*)/ or next;
  my $a=$1;
  my $b=$2;
  if (!defined($a)){
    $a="";
  }
  if (!defined($b)){
    $b="";
  }

  my $y=length($a);
  my $level = $y/4;
  $depth[$level]{$2} = $depth[$level + 1] = {};
  }
#use YAML; print Dump $depth[0];
close DATA;
MainWindow->new->ObjScanner(caller => $depth[0])->pack;               
+   
Tk::MainLoop;
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