Setting the INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR to 'object-group'

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.012;
use Data::Dumper;

my %data;
{
    local $/ = 'object-group';
    while (<DATA>) {
        chomp;
        next unless $_;
        my ($type, $key) = /\A (\S+) (\S+)$/m;
        my @data = /^ $type-object (.+)$/mg;
        $data{ $key } = {type => $type, array_of_entries => \@data};
    }
}
print Dumper \%data;

__DATA__
object-group service DM_SERVICE_7
 service-object tcp eq 1433 
 service-object tcp eq 49160 
 service-object tcp eq 8086 
object-group network Employees
 description Employees
 network-object 10.10.12.0 255.255.255.0
 network-object 10.11.12.0 255.255.255.0

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Update: edited line of code. my ($type, $key) = /\A (\S+) (\S+)$/m;

In reply to Re: Help on multiline regex by Cristoforo
in thread Help on multiline regex by Anonymous Monk

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