note
izut
<p>
It seems the OP uses Win32, that's the reason I used <c>\r\n</c> :-) I'm sorry, but I'm on Mac OS X so I can't test the input.
</p>
<p>
The <c>\n+</c> trick does the job, like the example below:
</p>
<code>
use Data::Dumper;
my $input = <<EOI
a = 1
b = 2
c = 3
d = 4
EOI
;
# clean empty lines
$input =~ s/^\s*$//mg;
# construct the dictionary from $input
my %dict = split m/\s+=\s+|\n+/, $input;
print Dumper \%dict;
</code>
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Output:
</p>
<code>
$ perl test.pl
$VAR1 = {
'c' => '3',
'a' => '1',
'b' => '2',
'd' => '4'
};
</code>
<p>
Hope this helps!
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