Re^2: Replacing a block of text inside two keys with another block of text

I'm not sure how to modify the file since I am unable to load the file in and access the hash. If there is another solution I will be more than happy to implement it.

#what replacement data looks like
"new/path/desired/data"
"new/path/desired/data"
"new/path/desired/data"
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#data looks kinda like this

key1 => {
        #some data i don't need
        #more data i don't need
        <<'END_SEARCHPATHS',
        #block of data I want to replace
        "some/path/to/some/file"
        "some/path/to/some/file"
        "some/path/to/some/file"
        "some/path/to/some/file"
        "some/path/to/some/file"
        "some/path/to/some/file"
END_SEARCH_PATHS
}
key2 => {
        <<'END_SEARCHPATHS',
        #another block of data to replace
        "another/path/to/some/file"
        "another/path/to/some/file"
        "another/path/to/some/file"
        "another/path/to/some/file"
END_SEARCH_PATHS
}
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Re^3: Replacing a block of text inside two keys with another block of text by LanX (Saint) on Apr 24, 2017 at 22:41 UTC
Filtering a dumped hash like this will not work reliably. Read the file in with `do` and filter the desired hash keys with a `grep` if this is not possible because of size or because order matters (i.e. wrong data format) consider using another data format! Probably best a SQL DB Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]
Re^3: Replacing a block of text inside two keys with another block of text by Anonymous Monk on Apr 25, 2017 at 02:02 UTC
Your "sample data" sometimes omits the underscore in SEARCH_PATHS. If your real data does that, maybe that's one of your problems? If it doesn't, please stop giving us sample data that isn't representative.	[reply]