eval works for me.

use strict;

my $hash = {'MONTH' => 'January'};
print $hash->{MONTH} . "\n";

my $hashInitStr = "{'MONTH' => 'January'}"; # This would come from a f
+ile
my $hash1 = eval $hashInitStr;
print $hash1->{MONTH} . "\n"

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returns

Z:\Data\Perl>962633.pl
January
January

Z:\Data\Perl>

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Regards,

John Davies

Update: Be aware that this has hideous security implications. Also, as Moritz explained to me in reply to Testing error handling that calls "die", there are two forms of eval. But the code given above does what I think you say you want.

In reply to Re: Initializing an anonymous hash by davies
in thread Initializing an anonymous hash by Anonymous Monk

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