JSON is a good starting point, but it requires field names and values in quotes. See the following code which does not work due to lack of quotes: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
my $json = <<EOT;
[{field1:value1,field2:value2,field3:value3}
,{field1:value4,field2:value5,field3:value6}
,{field1:value7,field2:value8,field3:value9}
]
EOT
my $data = decode_json( $json );
print Dumper $data;

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If you can't write a simple regex to fix the quote issue, I suggest to look into Text::CSV. With the help of that module you might be able to parse your text file. It really depends on how quotes, colons and commas interact in your file.

In reply to Re: Move data into AoH by hdb
in thread Move data into AoH by vitoco

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