On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 13:41, Gavin Henry wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the easiest way to move variable declarations out into a file in > /etc/ and requiring a perl program to read them in at startup. If they are > not there, then the program must complain. > > Thanks. >
You cannot source shell style in perl. You can write a perl file and "require" it. In order to set variables for use in your main.pl script you could declare the variables with some scope resolution eg # /etc/cfg.pl $config::X = 12; $config::Y = 14; @config::cols = qw ( red green blue ); # MAIN require "/etc/cfg.pl"; # You could use a local variable my $x = $config::X; # Or directly use the global variable print "X = " . $config::X; #################### HTH Ram -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
