[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all, newbie question: I've got this .pl that has variables hard
> coded in it, and I need to draw these form a file instead... Here's
> roughly what I've got, how can I get the variables from a file in
> stead?
>
> my %ldap_hosts =("SOME_ENVIRONMENT_NAME" => "server.somename.org",
> "ANOTHER_ENVIRONMENT_NAME" =>
> "another.server.somename.org");
>
> So I've got this file /opt/stuff/config/conf.txt
> and in it is an entry like:
>
> Host_Name: serverxyz
> Port: 666
>
> So how do I read this in? I know I need to open the file, etc etc
> etc..
> I was thinking I need:
> open(CONF, ">$CONFFileName") || die "ERROR: could not open
> $CONFFileName, $!\n";
>
> But where do I go from there?
>
> Basically, this script was written by someone else, and they built it
> to read all commmand line args instead of reading from a conf file...
> I need to change this puppy to read from a file.... That way I can
> cron it up and don't have to manually enter all the stuff from
> command line... Yeah yeah yeah, I could pass the info in with cron
> also, but I don't want server names, IDs, and passwords sitting in
> plain text in my crontab... Thanks!
> Jason
I don't know about the passwords, but I run an interanl setup which uses a
basic file config to handle the keys and/or data as a Hash. For me it is of the form:
key1 data1
key2 data2
....
keyn datan
I have a master setup which is always loaded and then depending on the script,
it can have other values which it needs. By doing this I make changes to how
processing goes on without having to make mods to the scripts. SO earlier in your
script, have your hash defined and then pass to environ($MyHash) where it builds all
the keys you need. For me I do a simple regex of /^\s*(\S+)\s+(.+)/ which puts my key
in $1 and my data in $2. In fact I pass another param telling me whether this is the
first pass( Master ini ) or second to check on any individual script ini.
Wags ;)
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