Hi, I've been around Perl for a while, mostly doing scripts. I've got sick and tired of cut'n'paste coding, and I want to create my first module.

I often use a simple configuration model, read from a file or the scripts __DATA__ section, and break the lines up on the first white space, and stuff the results into %settings in a key/value set. Idea from Perl Cookbook.

Carefully following the guidelines in CPAN and the Camel Book I've turned the snippet into a non-object-oriented module. (I can email it to anyone interested - I don't have the code on the machine I'm writing this from).

I know there are some modules already in Config::, but am I reinventing the wheel?

I want something that is small, simple and useful. The current invocation of the module is about 11k, a third of the size of Config::General and a fifth the size of Config::IniFiles.

Many thanks in advance for any comments. I will endevour to post the actual code later on.

In reply to Simple Configuration module by Anonymous Monk

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