For the record, here is the code I am using which works well enough for my purposes. Thanks again to everyone for the responses. 
sub untree {
    my $lines = shift;

    my %obj;
    my @stack;

    foreach (@$lines) {
        /([|`][-])/;
        my $key_level = $-[0] / 3;

        if ( $key_level < @stack ) {
            pop @stack until $key_level == @stack;
        }

        my $current = \%obj;
        $current = $current->{$_} foreach @stack;

        if (/(\w+)\s=\s(\w*)\s*$/) {
            $current->{$1} = $2 eq 'undef' ? undef : $2;
        }

        elsif (/(\w+)\s\(no\selements\)/) {
            $current->{$1} = [];
        }

        elsif (/(\w+)\s=\s*$/) {
            $current->{$1} = '';
        }

        elsif (/(\w+)\s*$/) {
            push @stack, $1;
            $current->{$1} = {};
        }
    }

    return \%obj;
}

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In reply to Re^2: TreeDumper Parser / Inverse? by jimpudar
in thread TreeDumper Parser / Inverse? by jimpudar

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