in reply to converting an arbitrary string into a hash based on a pattern

you could try out this... 
$x = 'ABCD----[this]  fgab [that]  AB CD EF -- [foo]';
$x =~ s/\s*([^\[]+?)\s*\-*\s*\[([^\]]+)\]/$myhash{$1} = $2;/ge;
print Dumper(\%myhash);

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-sampath

2005-03-05 Janitored by Arunbear - added code tags, as per Monastery guidelines

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Re^2: converting an arbitrary string into a hash based on a pattern
by holli (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2005 at 10:13 UTC
    Welcome to the monastery ssk.

    As this is your first post, you might find reading Perl Monks Approved HTML tags useful, especially the part about code-tags. If you follow the advice there your future writeups will look far better.
    For now, I considered your node to be janitored (to add code-tags).


    holli, /regexed monk/
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