Re: creating hash from scalar variable

""Matthew" == "Matthew J Avitable" <mja@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Matthew> You could also invoke perl 5.8's ability to treat an in-memory string as a
"Matthew> file:

You can, but that's rapidly sliding into "obfuscation" territory. You already
have the data... why shove it out as a filehandle and back in line by line,
when all you need to do is split the data up by lines?

string-as-filehandle is mostly to work around legacy systems that want a
filehandle but you actually want the data in memory. Don't invent *new*
interfaces that *require* their use. Ugh.

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