Using a config file with Perl program

[Guest_imported]

What I would like to do is utilize a simple text file with some configuration parameters for a Perl program. Items like user name, password, server, IP Address, etc.

How do I utilize the information in the config file in my program?

 

[yauncin]

you can do something like this

--config file--
somefile.config
name=john doe
address=5555 some road
city=new york
state=new york
zip=55555

--perl script--
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my %config;

open CONFIGFILE, 'somefile.config';
while (<CONFIGFILE>)
{
next if /^\s+$/;
my($key, $value) = split /=/;
$config{$key} = $value;
}
close CONFIGFILE;

and then all the config entries are in the has %config

 

[hmerrill]

So after yauncin's while loop, you could do this:

print &quot;Name: $config{'name'}\n&quot;;
print &quot;Address: $config{'address'}\n;

or whatever you want. I just wanted to illustrate how you would refer to the config variables read in from the config file - in case you're not familiar with Perl hashes ;-)

If you're *not* familiar with Perl hashes, you should definitely learn about them.

perldoc perldata

is Perl's documentation on Perl data types.

HTH. Hardy Merrill