my %datahash; 
while (my $line=<DATA>) { 
  chomp $line; 
  $line=~s/^\s+//; 
  $line=~s/\s+$//; 
  my ($var,$val0)=split('=',$line,2); 
  $val0='' unless (defined $val0); 
  if ($val0=~m/^\"(.*)\"$/) {  $datahash{$var}=$1;} 
  else {$datahash{$var}=$val0;} 
} 
use Data::Dumper; 
print Dumper({datahash=>\%datahash});
__DATA__
Attr num="101" 
name="Created" 
desc="Time file was created." 
type="t" 
ord="3" 
value="2017-06-03T11:27:23+01:00" 
noeq
noval=
noquotes=noquotes

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Result

$VAR1 = {
          'datahash' => {
                          'name' => 'Created',
                          'Attr num' => '101',
                          'noeq' => '',
                          'noquotes' => 'noquotes',
                          'ord' => '3',
                          'noval' => '',
                          'value' => '2017-06-03T11:27:23+01:00',
                          'desc' => 'Time file was created.',
                          'type' => 't'
                        }
        };

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In reply to Re: How to analyse structured data to get a hash by huck
in thread How to analyse structured data to get a hash by merrymonk

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