in reply to Re^2: .ini type file to store contents in hash of hash format
in thread .ini type file to store contents in hash of hash format

Okay, to make up for my snide reply a few minutes ago, I decided to whip this up for you. It should get you started as a rough guide for approaching your problem:

use strict; use Data::Dumper; my %hash; my $section = '__none__'; while (<DATA>) { next if /^#/; chomp; if ( /^\[([^\]]+)\]$/ ) { $section = $1; } elsif ( /^([^=]+?)\s*=\s*(.*)$/ ) { $hash{$section}{$1} = $2; } } die Dumper( \%hash ); __DATA__ # This is a configuration file. Section = none [TITLE] Name = John Location = USA [HEAD] Name = James Location = Canada [BODY] Name = Mayer Location = UK

Output:

$VAR1 = { 'TITLE' => { 'Location' => 'USA', 'Name' => 'John' }, 'BODY' => { 'Location' => 'UK', 'Name' => 'Mayer' }, '__none__' => { 'Section' => 'none' }, 'HEAD' => { 'Location' => 'Canada', 'Name' => 'James' } };
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edan