Re: Substituting tokens into configuration values

For me the simplest approach to configuration files is to use perl syntax - and than directly build the datastructures by an eval. The substitution problem would be solved by an asignemnt in the built datastructure - something like this:

 $config->{general-schedule} = $general-schedule-config
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Where the $general-schedule-config was built by an eval as well.

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Re: Re: Substituting tokens into configuration values by crouchingpenguin (Priest) on Mar 20, 2003 at 14:33 UTC
You can also use do to accomplish the same thing. Here is a simple example: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; our $config; do '/tmp/config.pl'; print Dumper(\$config),"\n";` [download] and /tmp/config.pl looks like: `$config = [ option1 => 'one', option2 => 'two', option3 => 'three' ];` [download] It might also be advantagous to setup a signal handler (or whatever means/mechanism available as a win service) that will reread the config. cp ---- "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Substituting tokens into configuration values
by crouchingpenguin (Priest) on Mar 20, 2003 at 14:33 UTC

You can also use do to accomplish the same thing. Here is a simple example:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

our $config;

do '/tmp/config.pl';

print Dumper(\$config),"\n";
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and /tmp/config.pl looks like:

$config = [
  option1 => 'one',
  option2 => 'two',
  option3 => 'three'
];
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It might also be advantagous to setup a signal handler (or whatever means/mechanism available as a win service) that will reread the config.

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