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How to create name/value from string based on equal sign?

Dec 1st, 2004 09:12
Nat Tuck, Guest,

If you have the $string
"this=that monkeys=red stuff=purple bob=tuna"
you can say
@pairs = split /\s+/, $string;
foreach $p (@pairs) {
   ($k, $v) = split /=/, $p;
   $hash{$k} = $v;
}