"Shaw, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Thanks. I looked at Storable and Freezethaw (they are also refered to in that doco I 
>was looking at above). Freezethaw wasn't available on my system. Storable used a 
>binary storage format. What I'm looking for is an editable (text) format - just Perl 
>source. This perl source file will define the configuration for the rest of my 
>program. I want users of my program to be able to provide their own configuration 
>file. Using Perl for configuration files saves you the work of writing your own 
>(dodgy) parser. If fact I'm trying to do it this way because I have found multiple 
>errors in the original configuration file parser for my program!


Well, since you mention that Freezethaw wasn't available, I assume
installing from CPAN isn't an option - if it is, you could check out
YAML:

http://perladvent.org/2002/15th/

-RN
-- 

Robin Norwood
Red Hat, Inc.

"The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone."
-Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching

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