Saw something similar to this topic on the Monastery Gates but thought I'd ask all the same, because I'm not really getting anywhere.

I want to do the following from a text file with entries delimited by :'s
1. read a line from a text file
2. first word(s) becomes the hash name
3. next 4 words go into key,value pairs
4. repeat to EOF

ex:
name: bob: jane: joe: sue:
name2: john: me: oh: my:

So, I want a hash called name. With key,value pairs to look something like first,bob....second,jane and so on. And a second hash called name2. With key,value pairs to be first, john....second,me...etc.

I've been playing with regexes and splits with varying degrees of a total lack of success.

John

In reply to parsing text file into a hash? by ralfthewise

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