in reply to Fetching a file path from a Perl 'rc' file

Cleaned up the code to include just the required part as suggested. So the question is: how would I fetch the contents of my 'rc' or configuration file which contains the path of the files I need to read from my Perl script? Thanks!

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Re^2: Fetching a file path from a Perl 'rc' file
by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 13, 2015 at 17:04 UTC
    Now you have cleaned it up too much.

    • What does the subroutine parse_cmdline () do? Does it work as expected and what variables are set by it? What is in those variables?
    • What does read_file($OPTS{rcfile}) do? what's in $OPTS{rcfile}? Where does this data come from?
    • The sub dynamo_check relies on a number of global variables. Where are these variables set? What is their content? Is their content as expected? You are reading from $log_file as if that is a file-handle. Is it indeed a valid filehandle (and not simply a file-path)? Did you check the open function that set the filehandle for errors?
    • I have the same questions about the open_for_reading subroutine.

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Re^2: Fetching a file path from a Perl 'rc' file
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2015 at 23:10 UTC
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