I've got a bit of a problem. For security and convenience reasons, I'd like my program to read in some data at start, rather than hard-code it into the program. So far, the best I could come up with was the following: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings;
my %data;
my $InputFile = "/the/file/in/question";
open INPUT, "< $InputFile";
foreach $line (<INPUT>) {
    my @array = split /:/, $line;
    $data{$array[1]} = $array[2];
}

contents of /the/file/in/question:
foo:FOO
bar:BAR
baz:BAZ
qux:QUX

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Simple and minimalist as it is, I cannot help feeling there is a better way of doing things, which will make better use of the computer's resources. Any ideas?

In reply to Converting a Flat-File to a Hash by Anonymous Monk

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