Esteemed seekers of wisdom,

I find perl hash notation very readable, so I tend to use it for config files, the problem is, that then I have to require/use the file ( which is insecure and unelegant ), and I would prefer to parse it, like you normally do with config files.

With some external lib parsing this hash notation it would be also easy to let non-perl based programs read such files..

First phase would be just parsing something like this: 

   my $hash={
      'Key1' => "Value1",
      'Key2' => "Value2",
   };

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next levels would handle arrays, comments, etc...

What would be the best way to handle this? (ie without evaling this, possibly with some kind of error reporting )

Has anyone else done anything like this, any big hurdles waiting for soul trying that ( I haven't found any module/lib handling this issue )?

UPDATE D'oh! Of course there is, Storable does exactly that.

In reply to Only perl parses perl hash notation? by Eyck

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