Hi I'm trying to use Perl as a configuration language. I have found
Data::Dumper. I found some doco here:
http://tit.irk.ru/perlbookshelf/advprog/ch10_02.htm#ch10-pgfId-976240
Here it talks about how to dump out complex data structures and mentions
eval. What I don't understand is how to evaluate a file and access the
result again.
As a work-around, I am currently putting my configuration data into a .pm
file and getting at it by using 'use'. Unfortunately you can't say
$package = 'foo::configuration';
use $package;
It's not legal. This means that this way doesn't seem the best. What I need
is something like:
$file = 'configuration.pl';
$result = evaluate_file($file); # FIXME
foreach $item ($result) {
# process configuration item
}
Appreciate your help.
Steve.
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