Re: Create a hash by spliting string

You have the basics of it already. you can split on a regular expression, so a character class that included both colon ":" and semi-colon ";" would split your string into a list of 6 elements.

At this point, knowing that any list with an even number of elements can be assigned to a hash is important because that's how you'd complete the task, simply by assigning the output of the split to %hash

print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

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Re^2: Create a hash by spliting string by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Feb 10, 2011 at 01:36 UTC
Whereas I, being forever distrustful of data, would split the string on semicolons, and then, in a loop, split each piece separately. And, my code would verify that each of these splits generated exactly two pieces, and it would `croak` if ever it did not. So, this would not only accomplish the task of splitting the string, but also confirm that it is well-formed. Yup... guess I’m a Perl Dork.
Re^3: Create a hash by spliting string by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Feb 10, 2011 at 08:34 UTC
Hardly a dork, after all verifying your data is valid before throwing it into a structure is the correct thing to do. However I suspect our Anonymous friend isn't writing production code here `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l]