I use Config::Simple it works very well, except for the tied hash interface where it flattens the sections into a single hash which when dumped looks like:

 'newsletter.owner_p1_font' => [],
 'newsletter.contact_font' => 'Helvetica',
 'newsletter.owner_city' => 'Hamilton',
 'system.debug' => '1',
 'armtwo.username' => [],
 'newsletter.contact_y' => '150',
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The tied method of Config::IniFiles is more intuitive.

Config::Simple is pretty widely used and if you have a problem the developer is very responsive.

jdtoronto