Hi Monks, I had some great help the other day from jonadab and others and would like a little more on adapting this code...

It works great for parsing a file, but sometimes I have already read the file into a $buffer and need to do the same processing.

If there is a way to easily convert the neat "local $/" file-handle trick, I don't see it. Do I need to somehow keep track of the character count in the $buffer?

The code parses k=v and heredoc config files 

 while (<CONFIG>) {
    if (/^\s*#/) {  # ignore comment line
    } elsif (/^\s*$/) { # ignore blank line
    } elsif (/(\w+)\s*=\s*[<]{2}(\w+)/) { # heredoc
      (my $name, local $/) = ($1, "\n$2"); # ++ysth
      $config{$name} = <CONFIG>;
      chomp $config{$name}; # as etcshadow points out.
    } elsif (/(\w+)\s*=\s*(.*?)\s*$/) { # regular pair
      $config{$1}=$2;
    } else {
       warn "Ptooey:  Could not parse config line: $_\n";
    }
 }

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In reply to addn'l help with parsing here doc by smackdab

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