Hello. I am at my wit's end on this recursive problem.

I would like to take a list of strings, delimited like so: 

one
foo / bar
foo / baz
foo / qux / two
foo / qux / three
foo / qux / four
five

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And turn that into an array of hashes like so: 

$VAR = [
    {
        name = 'one',
    },
    {
        name = 'foo',
        children => [
            {
                name => 'bar',
            },
            {
                name => 'baz',
            },
            {
                name => 'qux',
                children => [
                    {
                        name => 'two',
                    },
                    {
                        name => 'three',
                    },
                    {
                        name => 'four',
                    },
                ],
            },
        ],
    },
    {
        name = 'five',
    },
];

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The data can be N levels deep, and while my goal has been to use a recursive solution, I am open to any and all ideas/solutions. (Past nodes, etc.)

I have attempted this several times today and while I seemed to come close, I end up with with a 1 level deep array of hashes (with duplicate names for the parents). :(

In reply to Convert delimited string into nested data structure by Anonymous Monk

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