OK, there's been this recent discussion on comp.lang.perl.misc, and it's gotten perverse enough to drag one of the postings over to the monestary.

A simple mechanism to turn a list of comma-separated-values into a list of hashrefs, each hashref naming the fields from the comma-separated-values. When we got to using the term "hashificator", I knew it needed a wider audience. Enjoy!

According to Anno Siegel <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>:
> According to Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>:
>
> [...]
>
> > More perversely perlish:
> >
> >     @game = map +{
> >       (qw/name score date/, split /,/)[0,3,1,4,2,5]
> >     }, @scores;
> >
> > Do Not Try This At Home. :)
>
> Ah... retro-hashification of the unwieldy.  I knew there had to
> be something like that.

...and it generalizes:

    my @keys = qw/name score date comment/;
    my @hashificator = map( ( $_, $_ + @keys), 0 .. @keys - 1);
    @game = map +{
        (@keys, split /,/)[ @hashificator]
    }, @scores;

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In reply to Converting a CSV list to a list of hashrefs naming the fields by merlyn

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