Using do or eval to parse files like your work.conf is potentially very dangerous. Arbitrary Perl code can be inserted in files like that.

I have used Data::Undump with some success to more safely read data from files like your work.conf

However, since you are interested in only the values for $folder and license, you could extract those with regular expressions

(Untested)

use strict;
use warnings;
my $dir;
my $lic;
my $cfgf = 'work.conf';
open my $cfgh, '<', $cfgf or die "Can't open $cfgf: $!\n";
while (<$cfgh>)
{
    if (/\$folder\s+=\s+'([^']+)'/)
        $dir = $1;
        next;
    }
    if (/license\s+=>\s+'([^']+)'/)
    {
        $lic = $dir . $1;
        last;
    }
}
print "Folder: $dir\nLicense: $lic\n";

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In reply to Re: Recover a path from a config file by RonW
in thread Recover a path from a config file by Chaoui05

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