So I have a config file which I need to read into a perl script and store in variables to use later in the process.

The file looks like so:

-----
SECTION=cr
NX_NTF_ID=400017
NX_NTF_PRODUCER_ID=cr
NX_NTF_PERSISTENT_ID=cr:400017
NX_NTF_NEW_DELAY_LOG=
-----
SECTION=cnt
NX_NTF_ID=F9F342055699954C93DE36923835A182 UUID String
NX_NTF_PRODUCER_ID=cnt
NX_NTF_PERSISTENT_ID=cnt:F9F342055699954C93DE36923835A182
NX_NTF_LAST_MOD_DT=02/04/2013 13:52:27

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The code I have done to date reads in the file and stores the values in variable names consistent with what they are in the file.

my $input = "..//NX.env";
open(NX_ENV, "<", $input) or die "Can't open input file $input\n";
my %NX_NTF_vars;
while (<NX_ENV>) {
    chomp;
    if ($_ =~ /^NX_NTF_/) {
        my ($key, $value) = split("=", $_);
        $NX_NTF_vars{$key} = $value;
    };
};

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I then use the following to set my variables for later use:

my $NTF_ID = $NX_NTF_vars{'NX_NTF_ID'};
my $NTF_PROD = $NX_NTF_vars{'NX_NTF_PRODUCER'};
my $NTF_PID = $NX_NTF_vars{'NX_NTF_PERSISTENT_ID'};

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However, you can probably see the problem here... as there's an entry for NX_NTF_PERSISTENT_ID under the section headed SECTION=cr and an entry under SECTION=cnt.
So I need to know if there's a way of prefixing the $key variables with the name from the SECTION line?

Any advice greatly received!

In reply to Reading and storing multiple lines from a file by shewang

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