On Oct 25, Jeff Borders said:
>I need to dump a plain text file that has the format of:
>
>key = value (ie. question <equal sign> answer)
>
>into a hash. I'm writing a simple learning tool to help me learn some
>basic korean terminology.
>
>Would someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction.
You want to start with an empty hash:
my %dict;
Then, when you're looping over each line of the file:
while (<FILE>) {
you'll want to remove the ending newline,
chomp;
and split it on the = character (with whitespace on either side):
my ($term, $def) = split /\s*=\s*/;
Then you want to put that pair into the hash:
$dict{$term} = $def;
}
Using the hash, and opening the file, I leave up to you.
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