Hi All,  I am looking for suggestions or to be pointed in the right di
+rection on using config files to process lines of perl code.  I am fa
+miliar with using config modules but I am looking to take it a step d
+eeper.   What I would like to do is have a perl script look to a conf
+ig file in order to decide how to process a record in a text file.

Example:
I need to map a code from a record to another code.
if Trancode0 eq ABC than make Trancode XYZ.  Below is how I do it in t
+he script but want to avoid having to keep changing the script every 
+time I need to create a new translation mapping.

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if (($TRANCODE0 =~m/(TSP|KSP)/) && ($QUANTITY ne '00000000.00000') && 
+($QSIGN eq "+") && ($KEYCODE =~m/(10|11|20|60)/)){
    $TRAN_CODE = "RCV";
}

if (($TRANCODE0 =~m/(TSP|KSP)/) && ($QSIGN eq "-") && ($KEYCODE =~m/(1
+0|11|20|60)/)){
    $TRAN_CODE = "DLV";
}

if (($TRANCODE0 =~m/(TSP|KSP)/) && ($QUANTITY eq '00000000.00000')  &&
+ ($KEYCODE =~m/(10|11|20|60)/)){
    $TRAN_CODE = "DLV";
}

if (($TRANCODE0 eq "EXP") && ($SECTYPE eq "8")){
   $TRAN_CODE = "OPTEXP";
}

if (($TRANCODE0 eq "EXP") && ($SECTYPE ne '8')){
   $TRAN_CODE = "DLV";
}

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Any thoughts or suggestion are deeply appreciated.

In reply to using a config file by mmittiga17

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