thanks you Cdarke your code works .
but i acctually i try to pass a variable to it. how should i correct it?

many thanks 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my $str = "{file => 'file1', desc  => 'test'}, {file => 'file12', desc
+ => 'test2'}"
my $string = $str;
my @array_of_hashes;
my @array_of_hashes;

my @hashes = $string =~ /(\{.*?\})/g;

for my $hashstr (@hashes) {
    my @keys = $hashstr =~ /(\w+)\s*=>/g;
    my @values = $hashstr =~ /=>\s*\'(\w+)\'/g;
    
    my %hash;
    @hash{@keys} = @values;
    push @array_of_hashes, \%hash;
}

print "Pragma: no-cache\n";
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print Dumper(\@array_of_hashes);

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In reply to Re^2: Convert stirng to array of hashes by Anonymous Monk
in thread Convert stirng to array of hashes by courierb

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