Dear Monks,

I found out that I can have a common configuration file for Perl and PHP (e.g. conf.ini).

While I was reading the CPAN Config::Simple Documentation I found that the user can create a conf file with Blocks and Keys.

[BLOCK1]
  KEY1=VALUE1
  KEY2=VALUE2

[BLOCK2]
  KEY1=VALUE1
  KEY2=VALUE2
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My question, is it possible to combine Blocks with hashes or arrays?

I can not find relative information on-line. The closest example that I found Perl Config::Simple, sample of working code sligthly modified is provided under:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Config::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my %config;

Config::Simple->import_from('test.ini', \%config)
    or die Config::Simple->error();

#print Dumper(\%config);

my @data = qw< foo bar baz quux >;

foreach ( @data ) {  # Verify
    warn( "Parameter '$_' is missing from INI!\n" )
      unless exists $config{$_};
}
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The test.ini file:

foo 'test'
baz 'test-2'
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Terminal output:

Parameter 'bar' is missing from INI!
Parameter 'quux' is missing from INI!
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I tried several different approaches of the code according to my needs trying to achieve the expected outcome, but none successful:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Config::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my %config;

Config::Simple->import_from('conf.ini', \%config)
    or die Config::Simple->error();

#print Dumper(\%config);

my @data = qw< foo bar baz quux >;

print "Requirements ".$config{'requirements.test_foo'}."\n";

print "Requirements Array ".$config{'requirements.@test'}."\n";

print "Requirements Hash ".$config{'requirements.%test-2'}."\n";

foreach ( @data ) {  # Verify
    warn( "Parameter '$_' is missing from INI!\n" )
      unless exists $config{$_};
}

foreach ( @data ) {  # Verify
    warn( "Parameter '$_' is missing from INI!\n" )
      unless exists $config{'requirements.@test'};
}

foreach ( @data ) {  # Verify
    warn( "Parameter '$_' is missing from INI!\n" )
      unless exists $config{'requirements.%test-2'};
}
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The conf.ini file:

[requirements]
@test=('bar' 'baz')
%test-2=( bar => 1 , baz => 2 )
test_foo='foo'
quux_test='quux'
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The terminal output:

Requirements foo
Requirements Array (bar baz)
Requirements Hash ARRAY(0x13a06a8)
Parameter 'foo' is missing from INI!
Parameter 'bar' is missing from INI!
Parameter 'baz' is missing from INI!
Parameter 'quux' is missing from INI!
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I assume that I am doing something wrong and there should be a way of implementing the correct output since the conf.ini file is not complaining for wrong syntax

Has anyone encounter similar problem/solution? Or I am thinking way too complicated and I should simplify the code by using several lines for the same result?

Thanks in advance for your time and effort.

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