On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Ron Woodall wrote:
> I'm trying to take a word from a file and naming a scalar with
> that word. i.e. I find the word "target" in a file. I then need to
> create $target = "xxx" and various other variables related to target.
> Any suggestions?
Create a hash containing the keywords in the file:
$akey = 'target';
$file_data{$akey} = 'xxx';
Or even a more complex data structure:
$file_data{$akey} = { xxx => 'stuff',
yyy => [1, 2, 3]
};
How exactly is the data in the file organized?
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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