in reply to Initializing an anonymous hash

Better than string eval, put the code in the file and do or require the file.

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Re^2: Initializing an anonymous hash
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 30, 2012 at 16:05 UTC
    In my situation, I need to read strings from a file as I moved some of this initialization to a data file. This is the only time I need to build a hash from the string. Rest of the data are just strings.