This can be made with a regular expression:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#vim: set shiftwidth=2 autoindent showmatch syntax=perl
use strict;
use warnings;
# all lines following __DATA__ go into $s
my $s;
{ local $/ = undef; $s = ; }
my %vars;
# match 1 or more alphabetics chars followed by an '=' followed
Jerry Rocteur wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:15:23PM +0100, Rob Dixon wrote:
>
>>Jerry Rocteur wrote:
>>
>>Hi Jerry
>>
>>I started writing this in a single pass, but its a lot easier if you take
>>two passes - effectively converting from multi-line parameters to single-line
>>ones. I assume
> -Original Message-
> From: Jerry Rocteur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:59 AM
> To: beginners@perl.org
> Subject: Multiple line parameters in parameter file
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just searched the web and tried the archives but that is down at
the
> moment.
Jerry Rocteur wrote:
>
> I've just searched the web and tried the archives but I'm not in luck
>
> I'm reading a parameter file:
>
> PARAM=value
> PARAM1=value2
>
> Etc. and this works great, but all of a sudden...I need multiple lines..
>
> For example:
>
> login=logname
> password=password
> ftp
