use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @names    = qw(opens first last inc noise min max inc);
my $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";
my @data;
for my $set (split /#/, $patterns) {
    my @vals = split /\s+/, $set;
    my %hash;
    for my $i (0 .. $#vals) {
        $hash{$names[$i]} = $vals[$i];
    }
    push @data, \%hash;
}
print Dumper(\@data);

__END__

$VAR1 = [
          {
            'first' => '10',
            'opens' => '1',
            'min' => '0',
            'inc' => '0',
            'max' => '0',
            'last' => '100',
            'noise' => '0'
          },
          {
            'first' => '10',
            'opens' => '2',
            'min' => '3',
            'inc' => '2',
            'max' => '5',
            'last' => '100',
            'noise' => '1'
          },
          {
            'first' => '20',
            'opens' => '3',
            'min' => '3',
            'inc' => '2',
            'max' => '5',
            'last' => '100',
            'noise' => '0'
          }
        ];

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Update: I just saw jdporter's comment in the CB about "you have two elements in the hash named 'inc'. You can only have one."

In reply to Re: Help creating a data structure out of a delimited string by toolic
in thread Help creating a data structure out of a delimited string by Conal

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