Well here is another rather sick way to do it if you want
to keep the funky data structure you got. Note: I am not saying
this is better or faster, just ugly and sort of fun
sub OpenFF {
my ($file,$dlmt) = @_;
$dlmt = $_[1] || "\t";
my(%hash,%row);
open(READ,$file) or return;
my @headers = split /$dlmt/, <READ>;
s/^\s+|\s+$//g for @headers;
chomp(@row{@headers} = split /$dlmt/, <READ>)
and %hash = map { $_=>{ $hash{$_} ? %{$hash{$_}} : (), $row{$heade
+rs[0]}=>$row{$_}} } @headers
while !eof(READ);
return %hash;
}
