Hi,

I would like to turn a multiline string that looks like 

1 A
2 B

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into a hash that looks like 
{
  1 => "A",
  2 => "B", 
}

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And I tought this was easy enough, however to my surprise this does not work: 
use strict; 
use Data::Dumper;

my $s = "1 A\n2 B\n"; 

my %h =map { $1 => $2 } $s =~ /(\d+)\s+(\S+)/mg;
print Dumper(\%h);

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It produces 
$VAR1 = {
          '2' => 'B'
        };

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Could someone please explain to me what is going on here?

Many thanks!

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