Re: Including files

Nowadays,

$ cat config.pl
# This is config.pl
mirror     => 'http://www.nl.example.com/mirror',
path       => '/var/www/example',
skip_files => [ 'png', 'gif', 'jpg' ],
$ cat script.pl
# This is script.pl
use strict;
my %config = do 'config.pl';
chdir $config{path};
$ perl script.pl
$ perl -w script.pl
Odd number of elements in hash assignment at script.pl line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at script.pl line 3.
Use of uninitialized value $config{"path"} in chdir at script.pl line 
+4.
$
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Re^2: Including files by afoken (Chancellor) on May 29, 2017 at 19:24 UTC
I would avoid configuration files containing executable code. There are many better alternatives: Re: Accessing variables in an external hash without eval Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^2: Including files by haukex (Archbishop) on May 29, 2017 at 08:49 UTC
Nowadays, FWIW, the code still works fine for me under 5.24.1 on Linux. However, I can suggest you try replacing `'config.pl'` by `'./config.pl'`, as discussed here. Also, it's a good idea to add the error checking to do as shown in its documentation.	[reply] [d/l] [select]