As long as you're certain that the data lines are as (more or less) simple as the ones you've posted (ie, the keys to the hash are never strings that contain a '='), why can't you just eval the RHS? 

$line = '@{ $blah{ foo } } = ( 100 .. 104 , 105 , 106 .. 123 );';
$line =~ s/^[^=]+=//;
@list = eval $line;

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Of course, this uses string-eval (on "user" data, even!), which is a Bad Thing. It's also easy to break. I think you really would be better off if you can get the other script to print the list as a CSV string. It'd be easy to do, and then you could just split said string and avoid all this eval-evil.

bbfu
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In reply to Re: List as a string, eval'd back to the list? by bbfu
in thread List as a string, eval'd back to the list? by markguy

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