The third row has an "illegal" set of characters for YAML... i.e. 3: <bracket><some number><bracket> <some text> It causes issues when I run the following sample: 
use File::Slurp;
use YAML::XS;
use Data::Dumper;

print Dumper Load scalar read_file('output.txt');

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Sorry, the rest of the code was cut off.... 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @config;
open FILE, "<output.txt" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {
    chomp;
    push @config, { split /[^N\n*]/ };
    # push @config, $_;
}
print Dumper( @config );

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I am sure it has to do with the regexp... But I also think that I am not dealing with the file_read properly for the split to occur... TIA

In reply to Re^2: File Processing for YAML... by sinnerFA
in thread File Processing for YAML... by sinnerFA

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