I'm ashamed to admit how badly this has me stumped, especially since I did it once before and can't find the file. I only learned enough of Perl to do what I needed to do last time. This wasn't part of it.

I have this data which I can store in $string or a file, preferably the former. But I just can't get a handle on converting it into one hash, where the 2 keys and values are obvious.

Also, would love to know what data like this is called, and what the procedure to loop through would be called

Yes, I can just write something using regex to create the hash, but I really would love to learn the proper way to do it.

As always, any help would be appreciated.

{
  "genres": [
    {
      "id": 28,
      "name": "Action"
    },
    {
      "id": 12,
      "name": "Adventure"
    },
    {
      "id": 16,
      "name": "Animation"
    },
    {
      "id": 35,
      "name": "Comedy"
    },
    {
      "id": 80,
      "name": "Crime"
    },
    {
      "id": 99,
      "name": "Documentary"
    },
    {
      "id": 18,
      "name": "Drama"
    },
    {
      "id": 10751,
      "name": "Family"
    },
    {
      "id": 14,
      "name": "Fantasy"
    },
    {
      "id": 36,
      "name": "History"
    },
    {
      "id": 27,
      "name": "Horror"
    },
    {
      "id": 10402,
      "name": "Music"
    },
    {
      "id": 9648,
      "name": "Mystery"
    },
    {
      "id": 10749,
      "name": "Romance"
    },
    {
      "id": 878,
      "name": "Science Fiction"
    },
    {
      "id": 10770,
      "name": "TV Movie"
    },
    {
      "id": 53,
      "name": "Thriller"
    },
    {
      "id": 10752,
      "name": "War"
    },
    {
      "id": 37,
      "name": "Western"
    }
  ]
}

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In reply to How can I convert this raw data to a hash? by SergioQ

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