MrChromeDome, if you wanted to go the XML route instead of an ini file I'd take a peek at XML::Simple. You could replace your ini file with this: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Config>
   <Assessor>1.5.499</Assessor>
   <LOCAL_PATH>d:\pb8\</LOCAL_PATH>
   <SYSTEMS>Assessor,Treasurer</SYSTEMS>
   <Treasurer>1.5.200</Treasurer>
   <ZIP_PATH>p:\</ZIP_PATH>
</Config>

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Then in your read_ini subroutine, parse the XML: 
sub read_ini {
   my $config_file = shift;

   my $parser  = XML::Simple->new;
   my $results = $parser->XMLin($config_file);
   # $results is a hash reference
   return $results;
}

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You'll have to take into account the fact that read_ini will now be returning a hash reference instead of a plain hash: 
my $config = read_ini("AppDeployment.xml");

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And then... 
my $apps = $config->{SYSTEMS};

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Hope that helped.

Update: fixed typo, thanks buttroast.

-- vek --

In reply to Re: Application Deployment With Perl by vek
in thread Application Deployment With Perl by MrCromeDome

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