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 <seb@sjgross.org>, and since 2003 it is maintained by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>.

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).