$VAR1 = {
          '' => '',
          '362520' => 'Fktn and Name: fukutin[Rattus norvegicus]',
          '375790' => 'AGRN and Name: agrin[Homo sapiens]',
          '3339' => 'HSPG2 and Name: heparan sulfate proteoglycan 2[Ho
+mo sapiens]',
          '1428' => 'CRYM and Name: crystallin, mu[Homo sapiens]',
    }

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I am very new at this so help would be appreciated I have a file containing text like the one above, I have called it dumpparse.txt, that I created parsing a bigger file using Data::Dumper module. I want to very siimply change the lead text from $VAR1 to my %hash. Then I can read the file back in and do a hash search. so far I have read in the file as an array and the idea is to just use a simple substitution useing the code like the following. The trouble is the regex and the substitution look like variables and the programme compalins, help would be apreciated. Thanks 



#
#!/usr/bin/perl;

use strict;

use warnings;

my $hashfile = 'dumpparse.txt';


unless ( open(DUMPPARSE, $hashfile) ) {
print "Could not open file $hashfile!\n";
exit;
}

my @hashfile = <DUMPPARSE>;
    


foreach my $line (@hashfile){
    
    
    if ($line = ~s/ $VAR1/ my %hash /)
}


# Close the file.
close DUMPPARSE;
exit;

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In reply to trouble with substitution by Interzona

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