> but - oddly enough - I didn't see anyone mention ... use "paragraph mode"

The OP wanted to allow multiple paragraphs in one section, and IMHO this isn't easily done with $/ .

E.g using multiple newlines like in "\n\n" is a bit too error-prone and other separators would be part of the sections and needed to be filtered again.

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

update

use Data::Dump;

my %desc=init_data();

dd \%desc;


sub init_data {
    my $sep = "\n=====\n";
    local $/ = $sep; 
    my %hash;
    while (<DATA>) {
        s/$sep$//;     # kill separator
        s/^(.*)\n//;   # first line is key string
        $hash{$1} = $_;
    }
    return %hash;
}

    

__DATA__
ONE
one


=====
TWO
two

two


=====
THREE

  Three

  three

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