If I understand your problem correctly, this is how I'd do it (without all that mucking around with /s and /m and paragraphs)
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11123126
use warnings;
my %hash;
my $current;
while( <DATA> )
{
if( /(\w+):\n/ )
{
$hash{$1} = $current = {};
}
elsif( /(\w+):(\w+)/ )
{
$current->{$1} = $2;
}
}
use Data::Dump 'dd'; dd \%hash;
__DATA__
first:
this:that
here:there
when:what
how:where
now:later
name:onlyfirst
second:
this:that
here:there
when:what
how:where
now:later
name:onlysecond
Outputs:
{
first => {
here => "there",
how => "where",
name => "onlyfirst",
now => "later",
this => "that",
when => "what",
},
second => {
here => "there",
how => "where",
name => "onlysecond",
now => "later",
this => "that",
when => "what",
},
}
Is that the hash-of-hashes you are looking for?
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