I need to analyse data used to control machine tool. A sample is shown below. Each item in the row is a letter followed by a number which can be either an integer or real.
For each row I want to split the data so that in a hash I get, for example, for the first row
$h{N} = 260;
$h{G} = 02 ;
$h{X} =  142.05;
$h{Y} =  649.62;
$h{I} =  77.33;
$h{J} =  58.34;
$h{H} =  2;
$h{M} =  25;

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N260G02X142.05Y649.62I77.33J58.34H2M25
N265M20
N270G45
N275G01X304.78Y608.8C45.91M25
N280M20
N285G46C0
N290G03X324.39Y638.4I-69.58J67.4H2M25
N295M20
N300G45
N305G01X180.04Y592.89C326.5M25
N310X279.77Y586.78C26.5
N315X195.39Y584.57C336.5
N320X228.31Y579.58C355.92

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What is the most effective way of using Perl to ‘split’ the data so I can create the hash?

In reply to Efficient split for alpha numeric pairs in a row by merrymonk

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