Ini file module/script?

[Tve]

I'm still quite new at perl, but the scripts I write are used in several different offices. In each location, a few varaibles, eg: server name, can vary.

To avoid modifying the script for every office, I'm looking for a standard format to store information on the location. The script could access this information and thus stay generic.

This is a sort of INI format like used by Windows.

Does anyone know of a module/script this exists to read/write in this format?

Does anyone have other suggestions?

Thanks,

Thierry

 

[MikeLacey]

Thierry,

I'm not aware of a standard (CPAN) module but you're welcome to the routines I use if you wish?
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

 

[Tve]

Mike,

Thanks for the offer.

I would be very pleased to try your scripts.

My e-mail address: thierry.vermeersch@nl.abb.com


Thierry

 

[MikeLacey]

Thierry,

A better idea -- There's a module on cpan

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/R/RB/RBOW/Config-IniFiles-1.6.tar.gz

and its documentation

http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/R/RB/RBOW/Config-IniFiles-1.6.readme

Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

 

[luciddream]

There is a module for reading and writing INI files.
its part of the Win32::AdminMisc module.

i think there's Win32::AdminMisc::ReadINI()

and Win32::AdminMisc::WriteINI()

and i think there's even a tie ini.

 

[MikeLacey]

Win32 ties you to the NT platform though...... (yuk)
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com

 

[tsdragon]

The easiest way to do this is to define the variables that change in a separate .pl file and "require" it into the module. Then you can just change the variable values in that one small file. I do this for configuration values all the time.
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

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