1. What do you want to do to this config file?
2. What's your desired output? Please clarify and be specific about your requirements. To "read" a config file you don't need special modules. Open a file handle and read each line in a loop.
3. And is this a continuation of your previous thread?
@balajesuri
I have the configuration file, i want to read it by making objects like suppose i have a object named obj
so if i write
The output should be Care and its affilate
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If you use IniConf module in perl, the below are the sample code.
consider with you input file, you have one section in the ini file called head and have four parameter(line1,line2,line3 and line4).
Here we are trying to create runtime variable with the parameter name and prefix with 'm'
you have your values in the below variables,
1. mline1
2. mline2
3. mline3
4. mline4
i have added the prefix 'm' that denotes my variable. you have to declare all the variables when you run with strict.
If you print the mline1 variable like below,
output should be
this is the value you have configured under head section for line1 parameter in config file.
Hi All,
Can anyone please explain me how to read data from config file in Perl.
Suppose i have a config file named cfile. The data in config file is
name=parth
lname=mittal
user=2007
hostname=fluoride
username=parthmittal
password=XXXXXX
account=unix
url=www.unix.com
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Hi,
I want to configure some values in config file like below
work_dir /home/work
csv_dir /home/csv
sql_dir /home/sqls
reportfirst yes
and i want to store each value in variable to use it further in my my perl program ??
any thought on this(i am new to perl) ?
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Folks,
I'm a perl moron, so please speak very slowly. : )
I'm modifying a build script that starts up an apache server. Now there is a .config file that hardcodes an old webserver path like this c:\oldWebserver. Now I don't want that hardcoded value, rather wish to use an... (3 Replies)
Hi I am new to shell scripting. There is a requirement to write a shell script to meet follwing needs.Prompt reply shall be highly appreciated.
script that will compare two config files and produce 2 outputs - actual config file and a report indicating changes made.
OS :Susi linux ver 10.3.
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Hi,
i'm trying to parse a config file that have alot of rows similar to this one:
Example value value value
What i want to do is to split and save the row above in a hash, like this:
Example = value value value
Basically i want to split on the first whitespace after the first... (3 Replies)
Hi!
I have a need to do this in Perl.
script.pl -config file
The script would be doing a wget/LWP on a URL which is defined in the config file.
So when I run the script it should return either one of these conditions -
1) OK with exit status 0.
Should also print "wget URL"
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Hi,
I want to use a config file as the base file and parse over the values of country and city parameters in the config file and generate separate config files as explained below.
I will be using the config file as mentioned below:
(config.txt)
country:a,b
city:1,2
type:b1... (1 Reply)
Hi
In My config file i have 12.122.12.111:2000
A host and a port number.
To read the config file i have written in a perl script like this
my %config;
open my $config, '<','config' or die "Failed to read file :$!";
Its running fine in HP-UX but showing error in solaris... (2 Replies)
HI
I have a config file (ip.config)that has the following fields with colon as delimeter.
yahoo.com:1919 ( host and port number)
rediffmail.com:2020
gmail.com:2121
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Hi
can anyone help me understanding the following code
my %config;
open my $config, '<', 'config.txt' or die $!;
while(<$config>) {
chomp;
(my $key, my @value) = split /=/, $_;
$config{$key} = join '=', @value;
} (5 Replies)