I have a 'system' call to an app

    my $test = system($test, "list");

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which returns,

    p $test
        CoID:       Type:  State:    ID:
        ExampleCo   A      former    97546
        ExampleCo   B      pending   48541
        ExampleCo   A      ready     75521
        ExampleCo   B      former    50123
        ExampleCo   A      contact   60047
        ExampleCo   B      contact   19425
        0

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I want to select from that output-in-a-variable only the records where Type == "A", and populate the data into an array of objects indexed by ID.

So in effect I want to end up with

    array
        ID = 97546
            CoID  = ExampleCo
            State = former
        ID = 27377
            CoID  = ExampleCo
            State = ready
        ID = 60047
            CoID  = ExampleCo
            State = contact

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I can print out the `$test` output, but I can't manage to break it apart into object keys & values.

Do I have to save the return into a file, and then parse the file back in?

That seems wasteful, and I think I should be able to work with the data in the returned variable.

What's the right way to break that return data into these objects?

In reply to Parsing output from a 'system' call into objects? by eval142

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