Re^2: map to hash of arrays

Not exactly. Let me try my explanation again. Here is a chunk of sample data to illustrate what I'd like to do.

Row 17
    object_label : yang
    object_id : 123456
Row 18
    object_label : yang
    object_id : 789101112
Row 19
    object_label : yang
    object_id : 13141516171819
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The data comes in exactly like that, line by line. I need to ignore the Row \d+ lines and grab the rest of the information, so that I end up with a hash of arrays where 'object_label' are used as keys and 'object_id' with the same 'object_label' are items in an array.

%hash = {
          'yang' => [
                      '123456',
                      '789101112',
                      '13141516171819'
                    ]
         }
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Re^3: map to hash of arrays by ccn (Vicar) on Jul 26, 2004 at 14:26 UTC
please try this: `push @{$hash{$1}}, $2 while $data =~ /object_label\s+:\s+(\S+)[^:]+:\s+(\S+)/g;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: map to hash of arrays by emilford (Friar) on Jul 27, 2004 at 13:51 UTC
That worked perfectly, thanks. So is the regex treating the data read in as a single string? There are line breaks, which I thought would require the `/m` modifier to get away with something like this. I understand the `[^:]+` part that continues matching on anything that is not a :, but I thought the regex would end at the first line break?	[reply] [d/l] [select]