Thank you very much,jdhedden for this excelent lesson of OO use of this basic config file style!

I agree that there are several interesting aproaches to standarize config files. I also prefer the Apache config way. OTH, I should better prefer an XML way. I know.

But this is similar to what I use in my personal config files. And in this OO way, I won't feel guilty when keeping on doing so, programatically. It is error prone!

I should only point out that it is not possible to keep a special order in the variables, because of the hash nature of these config files.

But it is Ok for me and my scripts :)

{ \ ( ' v ' ) / }
( \ _ / ) _ _ _ _ ` ( ) ' _ _ _ _
( = ( ^ Y ^ ) = ( _ _ ^ ^ ^ ^
_ _ _ _ \ _ ( m _ _ _ m ) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ) c h i a n o , a l b e r t o
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In reply to Re: Reading and Writing Perl Config Files by chanio
in thread Reading and Writing Perl Config Files by jdhedden

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