Re^2: Config file recommendations?

That does seem to be what I'm looking for - if I had a config file like this:

%config = (
foo => bar,
bat => baz,
);
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How would I use that inside my Perl script, and have it globally available? Would require config; automatically setup the %config hash for the script that required it?

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Re^3: Config file recommendations? by kyle (Abbot) on Mar 19, 2008 at 15:21 UTC
I think maybe you're looking for Exporter. With it, you can have a module that will place a variable into the namespace of a program that uses it.	[reply]
Re^4: Config file recommendations? by Spidy (Chaplain) on Mar 19, 2008 at 18:19 UTC
This is what I've been trying, but it doesn't quite seem to work: `use Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw(%config); %config = ( foo => bar, baz => bat );` [download] But I would still get the error `Global symbol "%config" requires explicit package name`. The code to use my config file was: `use config;` website army	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Config file recommendations? by kyle (Abbot) on Mar 19, 2008 at 21:18 UTC
Main file: `use strict; use warnings; use lib '.'; use MyConfig; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%config;` [download] MyConfig.pm: `package MyConfig; use strict; use warnings; use Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our %config; our @EXPORT = qw(%config); %config = ( foo => 'bar', baz => 'bat', ); 1;` [download] And the output: `$VAR1 = { 'baz' => 'bat', 'foo' => 'bar' };` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Config file recommendations? by Spidy (Chaplain) on Mar 19, 2008 at 23:18 UTC


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