Thanks again guys.. here is a working program.. now I can finally access the data easily. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $input;
#my $1i;
my %luahash = ();
my @temp;
unless (open (FILE,"CharacterProfiler.lua"))
{
    print "Unable to open file.";
    exit;
}
my @ainput = <FILE>;
close FILE;
$input = join("", @ainput);
$input =~ s/\[\"(\w+.+)\"\]/\"$1\"/g;
$input =~ s/=/=\>/g;
$input =~ s/(\[)(\d|\d\d)(\])/"$2"/g;
$input =~ s/(\d+|\d+\.\d+),/"$1",/g;
$input =~ s/(\w+) =\>/"$1" =\>/g;
$input =~ s/=\> (true|false)/=\> "$1"/ig;
$input =~ s/\}\,\n$/\}/;
$input =~ s/\n\}\n\"/\n\},\n\"/g;
my $temp = '(' . $input . ')';
%luahash = eval($temp);
exit;

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In reply to Re^2: Help with making a string into a hash by Anonymous Monk
in thread Help with making a string into a hash by Anonymous Monk

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