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Thanks davorg, this is just the approach that I was starting to think about. However, when I run your code (MacPerl 5.6.1), the 'parent' isn't assigned properly: I get the following output, 
1 : cat1 : 0
2 :     cat1,sub1 : 0
3 :         cat1,sub1,sub-sub1 : 0
4 :     cat1,sub2 : 0
5 : cat2 : 0
6 : cat3 : 0
7 :     cat3,sub1 : 0

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I'm going to have to look at my docs to figure this out though, as I've never used $. before.

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Re: Re: Re: build mysql data structure from text file
by davorg (Chancellor) on May 13, 2003 at 12:16 UTC

    If you just cut and paste the code from my node, then it probably won't work as you'll need to replace the leading spaces with the appropriate number of tabs.

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      I was just about to reply, saying that I'd figured out why it wasn't working!
      I checked the docs for tr///d and thought, 'why isn't it deleting the tabs?', then figured it out.
      Sorry for being so quick to claim error with your code sir.
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