On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Jim Green
<student.northwest...@gmail.com> wrote:
> manually populate another hash and dump. But is there a easier way of
> doing this I might not be aware of?
I don't know if I'd call it easier. I'm not personally familiar with
YAML so I only bothered to parse the example that you gave.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %inverted_data;
my $subkey;
while(my $line = <DATA>)
{
chomp $line;
if(my ($key) = $line =~ /^([^:]+):$/)
{
$subkey = $key;
}
if(my ($key, $value) = $line =~ /^\s*([^:]+):([^:]+)$/)
{
$inverted_data{$key}->{$subkey} = $value;
}
}
for my $key (keys %inverted_data)
{
print "$key:\n";
for my $subkey (keys %{$inverted_data{$key}})
{
print " $subkey:$inverted_data{$key}->{$subkey}\n";
}
}
__DATA__
key1:
a: value1
b: value1
key2:
a: value2
b: value2
If a module exists to parse YAML then you might as well use it (unless
there's a good technical reason not to). Some Perl veterans can
probably reduce this to couple of lines. :P
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