SPUG: reg exp's

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:36:06 -0700 , stephen.m.baker at intel.com wrote:
>I need to parse quickly through a file of the following format:
[snip]
>to populate a data structure.  Is regular expressions the way to go about
>this? OR does somebody have a trick for how this might be done?

You don't say what the data structure should look like, but
you might try something like this:
==============================
use strict;
use warnings;

my $data;
$/ = '';  # read in a paragraph at a time
while (<DATA>) {
    push @$data, { split /:\s*(.*)\n+/ }
}

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($data);
__DATA__
heading1: data1.1
heading2: data2.1
heading3: data3.1

heading1: data1.2
heading2: data2.2
heading3: data3.2

heading1: data1.3
heading2: data2.3
heading3: data3.3
==============================

(I hope you aren't a consultant for Intel...)

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