Config::File - Parse a simple configuration file Config::File provides an interface to parse simple -although complete for most needs- configuration files. The syntax of the configuration file is as follows: # This is a comment VALUE_ONE = foo VALUE_TWO = $VALUE_ONE/bar VALUE_THREE = The value contains a \# (hash). # This is a comment. Options can be clustered when creating groups: CLUSTER_ONE[data] = data cluster one CLUSTER_ONE[value] = value cluster one CLUSTER_TWO[data] = data cluster two CLUSTER_TWO[value] = value cluster two Then values can be fetched using this syntax: $hash_config->{CLUSTER_ONE}{data}; There can be as many sub-options in a cluster as needed. BIG_CLUSTER[part1][part2][part3] = data is fetched by: $hash_config->{BIG_CLUSTER}{part1}{part2}{part3}; There are a couple of restrictions as for the names of the keys. First of all, all the characters should be alphabetic, numeric, underscores or hyphens, with square brackets allowed for the clustering. That is, the keys should conform to /^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/ This means also that no space is allowed in the key part of the line. CLUSTER_ONE[data] = data cluster one # Right CLUSTER_ONE[ data ] = data cluster one # Wrong For further details, please refer to the module's documentation. INSTALLATION Installing this module is like installing any standard Perl module, this means: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires only core modules: Carp Exporter IO::File COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Development was started by Sebastien J. Gross , from 2003 maintained by Gunnar Wolf . By 2018 Stockholm University took over as maintainer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL v2 (or later, at your choice).