Question

I want to dynamically create a %detail hash, without using an eval statement.
This code is working fine with an eval statement, but is there any better way to perform this without using eval?

my @input=('INFO: Vikram 32 2012','SAL: 12000$','ADDRESS: 54, junk, JUNK');

my %matching_hash= (
                    qr/^INFO:\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)/ =>['name','age','joining'],
                    qr/^SAL:\s*(\S+)/ => ['salary'],
                    qr/ADDRESS:\s*(.*)/ =>['address']
                    );
my %detail;
while(my ($regex, $array) = each(%matching_hash)) {
    foreach (@input){
        if(/$regex/) {
            for(my $i=0;$i<=$#$array; $i++) {
                $j=$i+1;
                eval '$detail{$array->[$i]} = $$j';
            }
        }
    }
}
use Data::Dumper;

print Dumper(\%detail);
++++++++++++++

$VAR1 = {
          'name' => 'Vikram',
          'address' => '54, junk, JUNK',
          'age' => '32',
          'joining' => '2012',
          'salary' => '12000$'
        };

Answer 1

Change the for loop:

for(my $i=0;$i<=$#$array; $i++) {
    $j=$i+1;
    eval '$detail{$array->[$i]} = $$j';
}

by:

@detail{@{$array}} = ($_ =~ $regex);