Here's a short little script that you can play with to see how this works.

use strict;
use warnings;

my %HR_config= ();
my $cfgFile = "c:\\temp\\cfg.ini";

&initiliaze_config(\%HR_config, $cfgFile);
my (@retVals) = &retrieve_config(\%HR_config);
print "Values from the returned array:\t@retVals\n";

my @keys = keys(%HR_config);
print "Keys from the populated hash:\t@keys\n";

my @hashVals = map ($HR_config{$_}, @keys);
print "Values from the populated hash:\t@hashVals\n";

sub initiliaze_config
{
    my ($HR_config,$file) = @_;
    open (my $fr, '<', "$file") || die "Unable to open configuration f
+ile: $file $!";
    while (my $line = <$fr>)
    {
        $line =~ tr/\r\n//d;
        next unless $line;
        if ($line =~ /=/)
        {
            my ($key,$val)=$line=~ /^(.*?)=(.*?)$/;
            $$HR_config{$key} = $val;
        }
    }
}

sub retrieve_config
{
  my $HR_config = pop(@_);
  my @values = ();
  
  foreach my $key (keys(%{$HR_config})){
    my $value = $HR_config->{$key};
    push(@values, $value);
  }
  
  return (@values);
}

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In reply to Re: Extracting values from hash by jrsimmon
in thread Extracting values from hash by Sun751

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