Hey Jos,
Not sure I understand entirely, but I think I usually do #2 also.
For example, I tend to do something like this in my code. Comments
would be appreciated. (I have not tried to run this particular bit,
for example, I was reading and think lc %Hash will tr all the hash
value chars to lower case, but I have not tested... <g>).
Is this what you are talking about?
my @FN = split (/\./, $0);
if (!-e "$FN[0].cfg") { # Create a cfg file (if it's not there...)
print qq[\n\tThe config file does not exist, creating $FN[0].cfg.
\tPlease check that the settings are what you need.\n\n];
CreateCFG();
} else { # read the cfg file
open(CONFIG, "<$FN[0].cfg") || die "Can't open $FN[0].cfg : $!";
while (<CONFIG>) { # process the Config file
chomp; s/#.*//; s/^\s+//; s/\s+$//; # clean the lines
next unless length; # anything left?
my ($Key, $Val) = split(/\s*=\s*/, $_, 2);
$Cfg{$Key} = "$Val\n"; # populate the hash
chomp $Cfg{$Key};
} # end while CONFIG
lc %Cfg; # no caps
} # end if/else create/use .cfg
sub CreateCFG {
open(CfgOUT, ">$FN[0].cfg") || die "Can't create $FN[0].cfg : $!";
print CfgOUT <<endCONFIG; # Create config file
# Case and white space do not matter, use "#" for comments
Parm1 = Str # Comment
Paramater2 = String
Parm3 = Another String # Doc on this parm
Parm4 = String
endCONFIG
}
Not sure how #1 would work, and I don't know if I want to get into
attempting to make a module #3 yet (this code I am working on may get put
in a module though. It is fairly broad, and I couldn't find anything
that did it on cpan.)
Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 12:58:37 PM, you wrote:
JIB> I usually use a config file for this now you could do this 3 ways
JIB> as i see it
JIB> - just have a file that holds a lot of global vars and 'require/use' that
JIB> in your mian script
JIB> - get one hashref that you globalise and thus reduce namespace pollution
JIB> - make it a module, give it a constructor returning a hashref and thus
JIB> not polluting *anything*
JIB> i usually use #2 for what it's worth
>>
>> I need to pass a number of parms to my program. Is there a "best
>> Practice" for how to do this? Command line is not something I want
>> to do.
>>
>> I did search on "Config" from search.cpan.org, but it returned 99
>> modules!
>>
>> Any suggestions? In the past, I have done it by hand, but...
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