Would really have to see your code to give you an educated answer. I wrote a module to pull in the variables from the flat file and send the data back to the calling prog as a hash reference.

The format on the variable file is 'variable:value':
store_dir:/path-to/the-storage-dir

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Split on ':', create a hash. Send it back to the calling prog as a reference.

Here's some quick sample code from the calling prog: 
my $config     = getConfigVars ();
my $storageDir = $config->{store_dir};

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This is nice if you have a lot of programs that need to know what the store_dir is. You only have to modify your config file and all progs will recognize the change.

Alternatively if there are no other programs that care what store_dir is, why not store the vars in __DATA__ and have a routine that loops through those recs: 
my %config;
while (<DATA>) {
   my ($var, $val) = split (/:/, $_);
   $config{$var}   = $val;
}

__DATA__
store_dir:/path-to/the-store-dir

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In reply to Re: Using Variables by vek
in thread Unitialized value warnings with require by Anonymous Monk

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