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Consider the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump;

my $filename = "./DATA.txt";

open my $outFile, '>', $filename or die "Can't create $filename: $!";
print $outFile <<'FILE_DATA';
name = "varun"
ip='9.12.23.222' #including the irregular spaces
FILE_DATA
close $outFile;

open my $inFile, '<', $filename or die "Can't open $filename: $!";

my %data;

while (<$inFile>) {
    chomp;
    my ($id, $value) = split /\s*=\s*/;
    
    $data{$id} = $value;
}

print Data::Dump::dump (\%data);

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Prints:

{
  ip => "'9.12.23.222' #including the irregular spaces",
  name => "\"varun\"",
}

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which creates a temporary file as part of the sample code (so the while thing is self contained), reads the file and builds a hash containing name/value pairs (this may not do it for you if there are multiple lines in your file using the same name), then dumps the resulting data structure as you might do when you haven't figured out how to use the debugger and want to see what you got.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: Accessing data present in a text file with references... by GrandFather
in thread Accessing data present in a text file with references... by VGR

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