On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 12:48 US/Pacific, Scot Robnett wrote:
[..]##### config.txt ##### $firstname = qq(Sara); $lastname = qq(Perlfreak); $email = q([EMAIL PROTECTED]); ### end config.txt ###
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A reasonable enough approach! But I think folks MAY want to look at not abusing
require("/some/path/here");
and look at the approach of building out a Perl Module that they can
use My::Foo:Config;
Since whil the simpler 'require' is a way to quickly and cheaply avoid having to have
a. a real config file format
b. a config file parser
There are ugly bits about name_space that can bite one's code in the long run...
Do you really want $firstname, $lastname, $email to all be in the main:: name space????
One trick I used was
http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Sys/ParseConfigFile.txt
for playing around with the basic 'config file parsing'.
Going with the more traditional perl module approach would allow one to have more effective control over how the "variables" are found, and used, and which name space they are in....
ciao drieux
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