Suppose I have a bunch of tables created with Text::Table. Does there exist a parser to convert them back to Perl data structures, or do I have to write my own?
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Suppose I have a bunch of tables created with Text::Table. Does there exist a parser to convert them back to Perl data structures, or do I have to write my own?
It seems somewhat convoluted. If you had the information before converting it into a table, then why try to parse it from its presentation form? It’s like having a text file, converting it to latex, then to postscript, and then trying to get the text back from the postscript file.
I’m sure there’s a way to parse the output of Text::Table, but it seems that your workflow is flawed; I’d aim at using a simpler output for the data (besides Text::Table, if you really have to have it that way) like YAML that can then be trivially restored to the original data structure.