I just completed a module that parses (and I use the term loosely) symbols from a Perl script. What it basically does is read in a specified file, evals the file inside a specific namespace, then examines the namespace for symbols and extracts the various things (or datatypes, if you prefer) into a hash. The only defined function (the module is used procedurally) is parse(), exported as parse_perl_config(), which takes a list of key-value pairs as its argument. Currently I'm calling the module Parse::PerlConfig. I notice the Parse:: hierarchy is taken up entirely by parser generators, and I'm beginning to wonder about the appropriateness of the name. Would Config::Perl be better? It can be obtained at "http://shoebox.net/software/archive/Parse-PerlConfig-0.01.tar.gz". I recently posted a similar message to comp.lang.perl.modules and my local Perl Mongers Group (anchorage.pm), but got no feedback regarding the module. I don't know if this is because people are unintersted, or if perhaps my terminology is confusing. However, I would still like to upload this to CPAN, as I find it very useful, and I hope others might as well. Michael Fowler -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com --
