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Old 05-29-2008
Configuration File storing in a Hash

Hi

How to read a config file and to store it in a hash in a perl script.

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Harikrishna
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Old 05-29-2008
It really depends on the type of the configuration file.

For instance, if that is XML, try the XML::Simple module. It can parse an XML config file and return the contents in the form of a complex data structure.

XML::Simple - Easy API to maintain XML (esp config files) - search.cpan.org
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