I have a lua file I would like to transform into a perl hash. I load the file into a string and change the string where appropriate. Once I have my string formatted I want to assign it into hash(s). This is the resulting string shortened (as printed out by perl) 
 
$VAR1 = '
"rpgoCPpref" => {
    "enabled" => "true",
    "honorold" => "true",
    "debug" => "false",
    "questsfull" => "false",
    "tooltipshtml" => "true",
    "lite" => "true",
    "scan" => {
        "inventory" => "true",
        "talents" => "true",
        "honor" => "true",
        "reputation" => "true",
        "spells" => "true",
        "pet" => "true",
        "equipment" => "true",
        "professions" => "true",
        "mail" => "true",
        "skills" => "true",
        "quests" => "true",
        "bank" => "true",
    },
    "ver" => "10500",
    "reagenthtml" => "true",
    "talentsfull" => "true",
}
"myProfile" => {
.... blah blah .....
}'

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This is the string from the file before modification: 
rpgoCPpref = {
    ["enabled"] = true,
    ["honorold"] = true,
    ["debug"] = false,
    ["questsfull"] = false,
    ["tooltipshtml"] = true,
    ["lite"] = true,
    ["scan"] = {
        ["inventory"] = true,
        ["talents"] = true,
        ["honor"] = true,
        ["reputation"] = true,
        ["spells"] = true,
        ["pet"] = true,
        ["equipment"] = true,
        ["professions"] = true,
        ["mail"] = true,
        ["skills"] = true,
        ["quests"] = true,
        ["bank"] = true,
    },
    ["ver"] = 10500,
    ["reagenthtml"] = true,
    ["talentsfull"] = true,
}
myProfile = {
 .... blah, blah .....
}

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so now that I have this string How do I access it as a hash?

In reply to Help with making a string into a hash by Anonymous Monk

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