$base='/home/foo';<BR>
$logdir="$base/logs";<BR>
$admindir="$base/logs";<BR>

##</code><code>##

while (<CONFIG>) {
    next if (/^#/); 
    ($var,$value) = split(/=/);
    $value =~ s/[\$,",',;]//g;
    $configvar{$var}=$value;
}