Hi. You are aware that perlmonks is neither a code writing service nor a job exchange, aren't you?

Show what you tried so far, and we'll help you with the remaining problems.

A great part of using perl is using CPAN. The file format looks very much like a Windows INI file, and that's a solved problem. Go to http://search.cpan.org and search for "INI". You will find many modules that can handle those files. Follow the links to the module documentation and find the one that fits best. Then open a command prompt, and type cpan install Your::Favorite::INI::Module.

If you insist on reinventing the wheel, but have no code yet, look up the documentation of strict, warnings, open, readline, split, autodie, and at least try to write a piece of code that reads the file line by line and splits the data line into key and value.

As with most other "simple" computer problems: Explain the problem in plain english, as you would for a very stupid human. As in: "Open the file foobar.ini. If that fails, stop. Else, read a line ...". From there, translating english to any computer language is quite easy.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

In reply to Re: Parse a file and store it in hash of hashes by afoken
in thread Parse a file and store it in hash of hashes by Sonali

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