Hi Monks,
In a legacy application PHP is communicating to PERL through Pipes. PHP file outputs a string data and in PERL we need to create the data structure. I tried with Data::Dumper but it is always returning undef. here is the string which PHP file gives 
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [attrs] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [key] => rat1
                            [value] => -10
                            [options] => 0
                            [type] => 0
                        )
                    [1] => Array
                        (
                            [key] => rat1
                            [value] => -10
                            [options] => 0
                            [type] => 0
                        )

                )

            [mesg_id] => 1
            [parent_id] => 0
            [thread_id] => 1
            [cat_id] => 3
            [folder_id] => 0
            [status] => 4
         )

)

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Is there any way to Dump this structure into PERL data structure ?

In reply to String to PERL data structure by perl_lover

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