I find this highly unlikely. When I run your code, I get the following output:

Global symbol "$rec" requires explicit package name at q:\tmp.pl line 
+12.
Global symbol "$rec" requires explicit package name at q:\tmp.pl line 
+15.
Execution of q:\tmp.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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If I declare $rec as lexical variable and create an empty filename tester.txt, I get no output. This is because you're not using Data::Dumper properly

print Dumper %HoH;
# should be
print Dumper \%HoH;

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Please post the actual code you are using.

Also, look at Config::IniFiles, which does all of what you're doing already.

In reply to Re^3: Parse a file and store it in hash of hashes by Corion
in thread Parse a file and store it in hash of hashes by Sonali

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