I find this solution to be very nice and elegant, probably because I would never have thought of it :).

I'm sure there's a module somewhere out there that allows you to merge several hashes into a hash of arrays, which may be a more convenient structure depending on what you want to do with it.

Here is another way to get those values in a AoH without the multiple m problem : 

use strict; 
use warnings; 
use Data::Dumper;

my %store; # put the results in here
while (<DATA>) {
    while(m< (\w+) = "((?:[^"\\]|\\.)+)" >gx)
    {
        # $store{$1} ||= []; ## useless: see hdb's answer below
        push @{ $store{$1} }, $2; # or push @array, {$. => $2} if you 
+want to keep track of the line of definition
    }
}

print Dumper \%store; # Look what we got

__DATA__
dvgqu="0"vgrq="0"w="0"devce="db"elped_me="0"r="0"rmb="0"rrqm="0"vcm="0
+"ul="0"w="0"wmb="0"wrqm="0"
dvgqu="0.00"vgrq="58.91"w="0.09"devce="d"elped_me="1"r="0.00"rmb="0.00
+"rrqm="0.00"vcm="0.09"ul="0.05"w="5.50"wmb="324.00"wrqm="35.00"

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$VAR1 = {
          'ul' => [
                    '0',
                    '0.05'
                  ],
          'w' => [
                   '0',
                   '0',
                   '0.09',
                   '5.50'
                 ],
          'vgrq' => [
                      '0',
                      '58.91'
                    ],
          'r' => [
                   '0',
                   '0.00'
                 ],
          'rrqm' => [
                      '0',
                      '0.00'
                    ],
          'elped_me' => [
                          '0',
                          '1'
                        ],
          'devce' => [
                       'db',
                       'd'
                     ],
          'dvgqu' => [
                       '0',
                       '0.00'
                     ],
          'wrqm' => [
                      '0',
                      '35.00'
                    ],
          'rmb' => [
                     '0',
                     '0.00'
                   ],
          'vcm' => [
                     '0',
                     '0.09'
                   ],
          'wmb' => [
                     '0',
                     '324.00'
                   ]
        };

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In reply to Re^4: I need to insert spaces and get the values for all the variables by Eily
in thread I need to insert spaces and get the values for all the variables by rahulruns

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