I just happened to write exactly this the other day,
as a generic configuration file reader. Here's the
basics:
sub readINI { # argument: filename
my %params;
open( INIFILE, $_[0] )
|| die "Could not open $_[0]\n";
while(<INIFILE>) {
if(! /^#/ ) { # Allow comments
chomp;
$params{$`} = $' if( /=/ );
}
}
return %params;
}
What you get back is a hash of key/value pairs. In
your case, $myhash{name} = 'john', $myhash{id} =
'12345', etc. You can even comment a line out by
putting a "#" in the first position (or by not having
an "=" anywhere in the line). The only slightly
obscure thing here is the use of $` and $' to mean
"everything before the match" and "everything after
the match", to save you having to explicitely capture
those sections with parens.
FYI, more detail on your initial question would have
allowed us to cut to the chase faster.
- John
--- ChaoZ Inferno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, the content of the file looks something
> like:-
> name=john
> id=12345
> password=12345
> colour=blue
>
> I am trying to grab the value field of each line and
> assigned it to be a
> variable.
>
> ...
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