At bschmer's request, here is a demo:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Config::Simple;

my $cfg = new Config::Simple( "testini.dat" );
die "Config file failure" if not defined $cfg;
%config = $cfg->vars();
my $bar = $cfg->param("FOO.Bar");
my $baz = $cfg->param("FOO.Baz");
print "<$bar>, <$baz>\n";
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And the data:

[FOO]
Bar=hello
Baz=
Boo=
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$bar is printed correctly, but $baz shows up as ARRAY(..).

--traveler