Thanks for your reply - I've done some reading up of OO with Perl over the last 24 hrs, and have come to the conclusion that I'd best stick to traditional methods until I understand it a little more.

Regarding AppConfig; I agree with your conclusions, although the only problem I've encountered so far is with the AppConfig::State VALIDATE option. If a parameter fails the validation, with PEDANTIC set to 0, the $config->args() method doesn't let you know what happened... as far as my testing shows.

Other than that, it's a very useful module.

Pete