Hi, I am having some issues while creating a multidimensional hash. The issue is with split and not the hash itself. Here is my code 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper; 

my %hash;

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    my ($type, $restofstring) = /^type=(\w+) (.+)$/;
    for $restofstring(split){
    my ($key, $val) = split /=/, $restofstring;
    $hash{$type}{$key} = $val;
    }
}
print Dumper \%hash;

__DATA__
type=first a=1 b=2 c=3
type=second d=4 e=5 f=6
type=third g=7 h=8 i=9

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The output is: 
$VAR1 = {
          'third' => {
                       'h' => '8',
                       'type' => 'third',
                       'i' => '9',
                       'g' => '7'
                     },
          'first' => {
                       'type' => 'first',
                       'c' => '3',
                       'b' => '2',
                       'a' => '1'
                     },
          'second' => {
                        'd' => '4',
                        'e' => '5',
                        'type' => 'second',
                        'f' => '6'
                      }
        };

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I was expecting the output to be like this. 
$VAR1 = {
          'third' => {
                       'h' => '8',
                       'i' => '9',
                       'g' => '7'
                     },
          'first' => {
                       'c' => '3',
                       'b' => '2',
                       'a' => '1'
                     },
          'second' => {
                        'd' => '4',
                        'e' => '5',
                        'f' => '6'
                      }
        };

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when I print $restofstring I only see "a=1 b=2 c=3", etc. I am not sure why $key, $value include the $type variable when I think I am exclusively splitting only on variale $restofstring. What am I doing wrong ?

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