hey Monks

I have a string with sets of data, each set delimited by a # 
$patterns="1 10 100 10 0 0 0 0#2 10 100 10 1 3 5 2#3 20 100 10 0 3 5 2
+";

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I want to split that string on those #s then by individual <whitespaces> to generate an array of hashes. Populated by something like this. 

 
push @patterns, { 'opens' => $opens, 'first' => $first, 'last' => $las
+t, 'inc' => $inc, 'noise' => $noise, 'min' => $min, 'max' => $max, 'i
+nc' => $inc};
#e.g $patterns[0] = [{'opens'} => 1, {'first'} => 10, {'last'} => 100,
+ {'inc'} => 10, {'noise'} => 0, {'min'} => 0, {'max'} => 0, {'inc'} =
+> 0};

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I could just assign each element in the string its own variable during the splitting process, but was hoping someone cared to offer up something a little more clever?

thanks
conal.

In reply to Help creating a data structure out of a delimited string by Conal

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