in reply to Get the value of a scalar variable from a file

ALT (AKA 'Tim Toady') and ignoring your problems with file handling, if you want to get all your names and values at one swell foop:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use 5.016; #1053134 my ($item, @subarr); my $line=<DATA>; chomp $line; my @arr = split /\s/, $line; for $item(@arr) { @subarr= split /=/, $item; print "name: $subarr[0] "; say " value: $subarr[1] \n"; } __DATA__ $foo='abc' $id=12 $text_code='tech' $task_number=4 $bar='xyz' $coo="nz +y" $crew='eleven'

Upon execution, you'll see this:

C:\>1053134.pl name: $foo value: 'abc' name: $id value: 12 name: $text_code value: 'tech' name: $task_number value: 4 name: $bar value: 'xyz' name: $coo value: "nzy" name: $crew value: 'eleven'

If you didn't program your executable by toggling in binary, it wasn't really programming!