Hello, enlightened Monks!

I have a string, that looks a bit like this:

"sometrash key1=value0 value1, value2 key2=value3 key3=value4"

I want to extract keys and values to a hash, like this one:

{ 
  key1 => 'value0 value1, value2',
  key2 => 'value3',
  key3 => 'value4',
}

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I used something like the code below, but for key1 it only gives me 'value0' - I thought there wouldn't be any whitespace in the values, and I was wrong :)

my %data;
while ($string =~ m/\s+([^\s]+?)=([^\s]*)/g) { $data{$1} = $2; }

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How can I modify my regexp, so that it only treats a single word right before the '=' sign as the key, and all the characters up until next key (or end of string) are treated as the value?

Regards, Luke Jefferson

In reply to Parsing "=" separated output by blindluke

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