If we're talking about just playing around with something to learn how it works, I'm all for rolling my own stuff so I can see how complicated something is, or expand theory, or just for fun.

You're talking about a production application here. The more robust the solution, the better. Fewer headaches for you. Since you don't like CPAN on the production server, and you're running NT, why not take advantage of the native Win32 functions for playing with INI files. GetPrivateProfileString is the function under Windows, if my memory still works.

There was a recent meditation on using the Win32::API module.

In reply to Re^5: Too much Hash?? by tadamec
in thread Too much Hash?? by HamNRye

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