G'day x-lours,

You seem very impressed with 'parse the file in "oneline"'. It is not impressive at all. It's exceptionally difficult to read, a maintenance nightmare, and extremely error-prone. I strongly recommend you avoid code like this.

You said you wanted to use the result in 'the rest of the script'; for that, you'd want to put the code in a subroutine; possibly in a module for reuse in other scripts. Below, I present a technique for getting the exact result you want: it's a standalone solution which you can adapt for a subroutine or module; it is very straightforward code that's easy to read and maintain; it has a basic sanity check and reports I/O errors.

Here's pm_11142528_parse_file.pl:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

die "Usage: $0 input_file\n" unless @ARGV;

my $in_file = $ARGV[0];

my $result = [];
my $block_start = 'objet => debut';
my $block_end = 'objet => fin',
my $rec_skip = '...';

{
    open my $fh, '<', $in_file;

    while (<$fh>) {
        chomp;
        next if $_ eq $rec_skip or $_ eq $block_end;

        if ($_ eq $block_start) {
            push @$result, {};
            next;
        }

        my ($key, $value) = split /\s*=>\s*/;
        $value =~ s/^"?(.*?)"?$/$1/;
        $result->[-1]{$key} = $value;
    }
}

use Data::Dump;
dd $result;
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Sanity check:

$ ./pm_11142528_parse_file.pl
Usage: ./pm_11142528_parse_file.pl input_file
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I/O exception handling:

$ ./pm_11142528_parse_file.pl not_a_file
Can't open 'not_a_file' for reading: 'No such file or directory' at ./
+pm_11142528_parse_file.pl line 17
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Here's the input data you provided:

$ cat pm_11142528_parse_file.txt
objet => debut
index => 1
a => "premiere valeur"
...
z => "dernier mot"
objet => fin
...
objet => debut
index => 77
a => "autre valeur"
...
z => "aurai-je le dernier mot ?"
objet => fin
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A sample run with expected results:

$ ./pm_11142528_parse_file.pl pm_11142528_parse_file.txt
[
  { a => "premiere valeur", index => 1, z => "dernier mot" },
  { a => "autre valeur", index => 77, z => "aurai-je le dernier mot ?"
+ },
]
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'could you help me to proove him Perl is as efficient as Ruby ? (even if it is not a "oneline")'

It is a common misconception that it is somehow more efficient to write single lines of code that are hundreds of characters long. Writing code without whitespace is also not more efficient; itjustreducesthereadabilityofthecode.

Use Benchmark to measure the efficiency of your Perl code. I imagine Ruby has something similar which you could use for a comparison (but I've no idea what that might be).

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