Building on SimonPratt's work:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;

my $VERBOSE;
my @TESTSUITES;
my %TESTCASES_hash;
my @TESTCASES;

GetOptions (
    "testsuite=s" => \@TESTSUITES,
    "verbose" => \$VERBOSE
);

# Often it is useful to allow comma-separated lists of values as well 
+as multiple occurrences of the options.
@TESTSUITES = split(/\s*,\s*/,join(',', @TESTSUITES));

open my $fh, '<', 'an.ini' or die "Failed to open an.ini for reading: 
+$! <$^E>\n";

my (%settings, $head);
while (chomp(my $line = <$fh>)) {
    if ($line =~ /^\s*\[([^\[\]]+)\]\s*$/) {
        $head = $1;
    }
    elsif ($line !~ /^\s*$/) {
        push @{$settings{$head}}, $line;
    }
}

close $fh;


for my $suite (@TESTSUITES){
    for my $test (@{$settings{$suite}}){
        $TESTCASES_hash{$test}++;
    }
}
@TESTCASES = sort keys %TESTCASES_hash;


use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%settings; print Dumper \@TESTCASES;

for my $testcase (@TESTCASES){
    # now iterate through your testcases
}

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Which would work like:

./an.pl -t Test_suit_name
./an.pl -t Test_suit_name -t AnotherTest_suit_name
./an.pl -t Test_suit_name,AnotherTest_suit_name

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latter two are the same, multiple testsuites are merged to produce a bigger list of testcases.

Hope this extra push in the back helps you...

In reply to Re^3: Read INI file by FreeBeerReekingMonk
in thread Read INI file by bhushanQA

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