three18ti:

If it's always that format, you don't need anything fancy. Just read the file, split each line into two chunks at the first colon, and package it all up into a hash. It should be something like this:

sub read_config_file {
   my $file_name = shift;
   open my $FH, '<', $file_name or die "Can't read $file_name: $!\n";
   my $result = {};
   while (my $line = <$FH>) {
      my ($key, $value) = split /:/, $line, 2;
      $value =~ s/\r?\n$//;
      $result->{$key} = $value;
   }
   return $result;
}

my $config_data = read_config_file('config_file_name.cfg');
print "Daily mission: ", $config_data->{'What are we doing today Brain
+'}, "\n";
print "Location: ", $config->data{where}, "\n";
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(Note: untested...)

Update: I actually like Marpa::R2 a good bit. I just did a project at work with it last month where I had to write a parser for a programming language. I found it to be pretty nice to use in that capacity. But it's overpowered, in my opinion, if you have simple tag:value pairs in a configuration file.

...roboticus

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