# myprog.config %authinfo = ( user => 'password', user2 => 'password2', ); # end of myprog.config #!/usr/bin/perl # # myprog.pl - configured by file 'myprog.config' use strict; use warnings; our %authinfo; do 'myprog.config'; print "$_:$authinfo{$_}$/" for keys %authinfo;