Question

I have key value pairs as “statement:test,data” where ‘test,data’ is the value for hash. While trying to create a hash with such values, perl splits the values on the comma. Is there a way around this where strings with commas can be used as values

Answer 1

Perl won’t split a string on a comma unless you tell it to.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use v5.16;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump 'ddx';

my $data = "statement:test,data";
my %hash;

my ($key, $value) = split(":", $data);

$hash{$key} = $value;

ddx \%hash;

gives:

# split.pl:14: { statement => "test,data" }