Mine is not as elegant as J.Krahn's or Jeff's. But it's an alternative. I am just glad to contribute at least something to the forum I have owed so much...
----------------------- use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper;
my %hash = ();
while (<DATA>) { s/\s//g;
You may be removing too many whitespace characters if any of the fields has embedded whitespace.
/(\w+)=(\w+)/;
$hash{$1} = $2;
You should only use the digit variables ($1, $2, etc.) if the match was successful or their contents will be left over from the last successful match.
}
John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
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