Need Your Help Quickly, Please

ImJustAFriend has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks. I have an issue I need to turn around fairly quickly. I have been working on parsing a log file. I got the log (finally) into standard "key=value" format and I was just putting them all into a hash. That was fine until I saw there were lines like this in the log:

key_a = abc123
key_a = abc456
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So now I have a duplicate value situation. Here is my relevant code at this point:

foreach my $bline (@blocklines) {
       print DEBUG "bline: \"$bline\"\n";

       my ($k, $v) = split '=', $bline;
       $kvhash{$k} = $v;
}
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How would I handle the multivalue needs in this structure. I am open to just about anything... thank you!!

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Re: Need Your Help Quickly, Please - Hash Issues by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 10, 2019 at 13:27 UTC
Maybe you can explain to us how you need to handle the multiple values. Should the first value be kept? Should the last value be kept? Should all values be kept? Should no value be kept because it is not clear which value is the correct one? What should happen if there is more than one value? What should happen if there are more than two values? Maybe you want to learn about Perl Data Structures, especially Hashes of Arrays?	[reply]
Re: Need Your Help Quickly, Please - Hash Issues by Tux (Canon) on Jan 10, 2019 at 13:27 UTC
`foreach my $bline (@blocklines) { chomp ($bline); $bline =~ s/^\s+//; $bline =~ s/\s+$//; print DEBUG "bline: \"$bline\"\n"; my ($k, $v) = split m/\s=\s/ => $bline; $k or next; push @{$kvhash{$k}}, $v; }` [download] Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Need Your Help Quickly, Please - Hash Issues by ImJustAFriend (Scribe) on Jan 10, 2019 at 14:10 UTC
Looking like this will work. Thanks Tux!	[reply]
Re: Need Your Help Quickly, Please - Hash Issues by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Jan 11, 2019 at 04:51 UTC
The surest way to get a quick answer is to make sure that your post conforms to ALL the suggestions in How do I post a question effectively? Bill	[reply]
Re: Need Your Help Quickly, Please - Hash Issues by 1nickt (Canon) on Jan 10, 2019 at 14:46 UTC
Hi, for merging hashes use Hash::Merge. Hope this helps! The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re: Need Your Help Quickly, Please - Hash Issues by LanX (Saint) on Jan 10, 2019 at 15:52 UTC
> Need Your Help Quickly, Please - please don't litter your titles with such needless stuff. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]