You're going to have to be more specific about how to tell the key from the value in your file? Are they just seperated by whitespace? The following (which is entirely UNTESTED) will match 'maintenance_mode' followed by whitespace followed by any number of word characters, commas or equals signs, but you'll need to look at the data in your file to work out a better regex. 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

unless ( open( FILE, "name_of_file" ) ) {
    die "Could not open file for reading\n";
}

my %hash;
while (<FILE>) {
    if ($_ =~ /^(maintenance_mode)\s([\w,=]*)$/) {
    $hash{$1} = $2;
    }
}

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In reply to Re: create a hash by reading file by Nevtlathiel
in thread create a hash by reading file by s_gaurav1091

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