I have a directory tree that is being provided in the form of a flat text file.

/root/dir1/file1
/root/dir1/file2
/root/dir1/file3
/root/dir2/file1


What I would like to do is create a hash out of this information. (note: this file could be of any length and have a variable directory depth)
hash{root}{dir1}{file1} = $value (where $value is determined at run time)

My initial thought was to split each line into an array, and then use the information in node_id=196317 to turn the array into the hash. But this seems less than optimal.

What would be the best way to handle this problem?

In reply to file tree to hash by Anonymous Monk

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