use PPR;
use Modern::Perl;
use Data::Dumper;
use Config::General;
use Sub::Signatures;


my $conf = Config::General->new( 
    -ConfigFile => "pm5.ini",
    -Plug       => { 
        post_parse_value => sub ($name, $value)
        {
            $value = split_array_str( $value )
                if looks_like_array( $value )
            ;
            return 1, $name, $value;
        }  
    }
);

#naive implementation, excercise for the reader to improve
#PPR might be useful to parse this, assuming Perl syntax for the 
#array
sub split_array_str ($value)
{
    return [split ",", substr($value, 1, -1)];    
}

#naive implementation, excercise for the reader to improve
sub looks_like_array ($value)
{
    return $value =~ m#^\[# && $value =~ m#\]$#;
}

my %conf = $conf->getall;

print Dumper( \%conf );

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holli

You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.

In reply to Re: Config::General to read both scalars and arrays by holli
in thread Config::General to read both scalars and arrays by The_Marshall

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