Hi,

I have a question reqarding Randal's nifty "safe undumping" article found here: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col29.html

On line 17, code is inserted to clear out the contents of %TABLE, parse a string, then return a hash reference to the %TABLE. 

file: { %TABLE = (); } assignment(s?) /\z/ { \%TABLE }

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Is it possible to instead of clear out the contents of %TABLE, append new elements to %TABLE?

I have some input data very similar to perl with comments in between. I want to be able to send a single assignment to the parser one at time to build the final %TABLE incrementally.

Thanks and Regards,

-P

In reply to Safe undumping by pip9ball

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