Greetings all, We have in various of our packages introduced the use of configuration files. These are quite handy when one has many different options to provide to a program, or those options need to be passed along to multiple programs...
There is a very nice perl module that takes care of some of the mechanics of handling configuration files (which many of you know can really be a pain, like parsing, error checking, etc. etc.) http://search.cpan.org/~sherzodr/Config-Simple-4.59/ Very nice. I came across this while reading "Mastering Perl", a good book by brian d foy (who I believe insists upon lower case letters :) The focus of the book is actually on pointing out clever Perl modules, and this was one of those... I don't know what we want to go back and rewrite our existing configuration file handlers, but should we need to modify or upgrade we ought to look very seriously at this. Enjoy, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
