Try use vars qw(%config); instead of my.
Update: Also consider turning the file into a package so you could say something like:

use Myconfig qw(%config);

print $config{this}, "\n";
# etc.

## And in your 'Myconfig' package:

package Myconfig;

use strict;
use warnings;

require Exporter;
use vars qw(%config @ISA @EXPORT_OK);
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT_OK = qw(%config);

$config{this} = "that";
$config{here} = "there";
#etc.
1;

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I like this solution better because the place where 'config' is created is self-documenting.
Update: The do block populates a package variable %config in a non-strict environment (your 'do' file), whereas the my creates a lexical variable which never gets populated (I may be wrong, but I think that's it).

Or consider using AppConfig

In reply to Re: "do" what? by runrig
in thread "do" what? by cLive ;-)

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