Why bother? Good question! Most likely no one will use this but me. Like I said before, I had read about YAML and thought that it was cool. I wanted to learn something new. It should NOT have taken any longer to write than any other config reader. Maybe I'm the only one who ever had this problem? I did find a lot of hits when I googled for it... I think the root of the problem was a) I'm used to using other config file readers, and they all load based on filename, not file contents; b) after a quick scan of the docs, I thought I knew what I was doing; c) the error message I got led me off in the wrong direction.

I'm fairly new to perlmonks and haven't made many contributions, and thought someone might appreciate the examples.

In reply to Re^2: An Idiot's Guide to YAML by scorpio17
in thread An Idiot's Guide to YAML by scorpio17

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