Hi,
I have a subroutine that returns some stored config data when a config element is passed to it. (i.e. config('username') would return the username I have stored.) I'm using use configModule qw(config) in many of my scripts so I can simply and easily call config('something') throughout my script and get the values I need.

However, here is an example of the problem I'm running in to: 
print "config('username') is my username";

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This returns "config('username') is my username" instead of "rlang is my username." I've tried calling it like this: &config() and this: \&config, but no cigar.

I know I could do something along these lines: 
my $username = config('username');

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...but that would eliminate almost all the convenience and flexibility I'm going for. I've never tried calling a subroutine in the way I'm trying to do...is it even possible?

Eventually I'm trying to use the results of my config subroutine to pass to yet another subroutine. That seems like a different question for a different time, but maybe solving the above problem will lead to a solution for this too.

Any ideas for me? Thanks!

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