> > The format of the output hash I wish to write is:-
> >
> > $hash= {
> > 'key' => {
> > 'original_value'
> > =>$original_value',
> > 'new_value' =>
> '$original_value',
> >
> > 'files' => [
> >
> '$file1','$file2'
> > ]
> > },
> > };
> >
> > Where $original_value & the $file1,$file2 values
> can
> > contain ANY character.
>
> I'm not sure if your hash is literal, but you don't
> want quotes
> around $original_value, $file1 and $file2.
>
Hey Bill, thanks for your input, but no, I was simply
meaning that the string of perl I was trying to create
would have some values that were themselves dynamic.
These dynamic values quite often contained {[()[EMAIL PROTECTED])
chars, which if I didn't escape them properley would
break the syntax for the perl hash ref.
Now I just have to read them back in and pattern match
against them in other files, think the \Q \E syntax
should do that, will look it up.
Regards
Marty
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