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I have a Perl script that is being deployed at several different sites. To allow each site to customize the appearance of the HTML generated, I have an INI file with a number of NAME=VALUE pairs. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to assign a value to a variable name that is stored in a variable. For example, if I have the following in my INI file:

$NAME=John Smith

I'd like to be able to read $NAME into $var1 and John Smith into $var2, and then assign what's in $var2 to the variable name stored in $var1.

I can currently work around this. Here is my script thus far:

sub read_ini() { my @file = read_file("recorder.ini"); my $line = 0; my $pos = 0; my $var = ""; my $val; for(@file) { if(substr(@file[$line],0,1) ne "#") { $pos = index(@file[$line],"="); if($pos > 0) { $var = substr(@file[$line],0,$pos); $val = substr(@file[$line],$pos + 1, length(@file[$line]) - $pos); if($var eq "NAME") { $NAME = $val; } elsif($var eq "OFFICE") { $OFFICE = $val; } # And so on for other instances } } $line++; } }

Can I use a hash to accomplish what I described above? I'm sorry for sounding ignorant, but I'm still new to Perl.

Thanks!


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