Hello PerlMonks,

I am implementing perl logging using Log4perl. As part of the input to a config file, the user provides the log level (Debug,Info,Warn,Error,Fatal). Depending on this, the log level is set on the log handler($DEBUG,$INFO,$WARN,$ERROR,$FATAL).

Mentioned below is a prototype of the code. I get the following error when i assign "$loglev" to the log handler "$logger->level($loglev)" - "invalid level '$INFO' at tmp5.pl line 19".

Is '$INFO' equivalent to $INFO? 
#!/usr/software/bin/perl -w

use Log::Log4perl qw(get_logger :levels);

my $lev = "INFO";
my $loglev;

if ($lev =~ /.*DEBUG.*/i){
        $loglev = '$DEBUG';
}elsif($lev =~ /.*INFO.*/i){
        $loglev = '$INFO';
}elsif($lev =~ /.*WARN.*/i){
        $loglev = '$WARN';
}elsif($lev =~ /.*ERROR.*/i){
        $loglev = '$ERROR';
}elsif($lev =~ /.*FATAL.*/i){
        $loglev = '$FATAL';
}else{
        die "\nPlease provide the correct log level\n";
}

my $logger = get_logger();
    $logger->level($loglev); # $DEBUG,$INFO,$WARN,$ERROR,$FATAL

my $appender = Log::Log4perl::Appender->new(
        "Log::Dispatch::File",
        filename => "test.log",
        mode     => "append",
    );

$logger->add_appender($appender);

my $layout =
      Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout->new(
                     "%d %p> %F{1}:%L %M - %m%n");
 $appender->layout($layout);


my $cnt = 100;

if ($cnt == 100){
        hit();
}else{
        miss();
}

sub hit {

        $logger->info("\nhit a century");
}
sub miss{

        $logger->error("\nDid not hit a century");
}

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