Reusable "modules"?

[CJason]

I have a few scripts that, upon starting to run each, basically all load some variables/hashes/etc... from a text file and then continue with processing. I would like to take this "loading of data from a text file" and make a module out of it that can be "called" from all these scripts...instead of having duplicate code all over the place. I'm thinking of it kind of like a subrouting/function in another file...like in other languages like C, etc... Can this be done in perl? If so, can anyone give me some ideas on how to do it?

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[KevinADC]

you probably want to look at "use" or "require". You can find brief explanations in this list of perl functions:

http://perldoc.perl.org/index-functions.html

- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[dmazzini]

Hi

There are some modules that can be used for reading configuration files and parse hashes, variables, arrays etc to your program.

Have a look at:

http://search.cpan.org/~tlinden/Config-General-2.31/General.pm

http://search.cpan.org/~nikratio/Config-Generic-0.01/lib/Config/Generic.pm

Cheers

dmazzini
GSM System and Telecomm Consultant