Fellow monks,

I'm playing around with map a little.

My problem is the following:
I have a string looking like this :
"abcd.........abcd.....abcd"
where a,b,c,d are the stuff i'm looking for, and the dots misc stuff I don't need.

Now what I'm trying to do is : match globally this string: this gives me an array that looks like this: [a,b,c,d,a,b,c,d,....] as many times as they are found. This is the easy part.

Now I want to map this to an hash looking like this: $hash{'a'}=[something=>'b',another=>'c' ]
To do this i thought, why not use map? But I don't understand how to take my 4 values and dump them in my hash, since map goes on 1 element of the list at a time.... Can somebody provide some help?

My mapping looks like this
%hash =map{??????} ( $content =~ /expr/) ; Thanx.

In reply to using map to generate a hash of hash by Sihal

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