[tpm] Breaking a string up into hash keys

[Antonio Sun]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>   I've got a rather large, random-depth hash. ie:
>
> $conf->{foo}{bar} = "a";
> $conf->{baz} = "1";
> $conf->{this}{and}{the}{other}**{thing} = "what?";
>
>   And so on. The number of hash keys can be quite varied, depending on the
> use.
>
>   So now I want to be able to take a string that is in the format:
>
> foo::bar
> baz
> this::and::the::other::thing
>
>   Split on the :: and use that to pull the value out of the hash.
>


Use eval.

It's pretty simple to transform "this::and::the::other::thing"
into {this}{and}{the}{other}{thing}, and the next thing is to pull the
value out of the hash:


$ perl -d -e 0

DB<5> eval '$conf->{foo}{bar} = "a";'

  DB<6> p $conf->{foo}{bar}
a

HTH

Antonio
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