Fellow Monks, I have an .ini file that I'd like to put into a hash, it's of the format: 
$xmldir="c:\test"
$cvs="d:\test"
%name=lancelot
etc.

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It's a bit of a mess, with some lines using quotes and others not. I wrote a short script that seems to work fine: 
   
   open FILE, "anyfile.ini"||die "file open failed\n";
   my %inihash=();
   while (my $line = <FILE>) {
          $line =~ tr/"//d;
             (my $key, my $value)=split(/=/,$line);
               $inihash{$key}=$value;
    };
   print "$inihash{'$xmldir'}";
   print "$inihash{'$cvs'}";
   print "$inihash{'%name'}";

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But, there must be a more efficient way of doing this, possibly using Config::IniFiles or some other code improvements. I'm open to any ideas that my fellow monks could suggest (comments, criticisms, etc.) Thanks in advance.

In reply to Reading .ini files by martymart

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