I haven't used Config::IniHash, but looking at the documentation it looks like you want something like:

use Config::IniHash;

my $config = ReadINI("/ini/file/to/read.ini", heredoc => 1)
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That should set the heredoc style on when reading the ini file. Untested of course, but the module seems pretty standard.

Thank you Belgarion:

I too read that documentation. Below are the salient portions of my test script. As you can see, I am using his suggested syntax. My test page at http://new.greenpartyblackcaucus.net/cgi-bin/test.pl seems to be pulling the non-heredoc variables from the .db.ini and the .conf.ini files. But my attempts to harvest the .copy.ini file using the heredoc feature yeilds a blank field, where I expected to see a paragraph of text.

I'm hoping to hear from someone who has made this feature work.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
# use supporters_conf qw(%config);
use Config::IniHash;

# $hashreference = ReadINI ($filename, %options);

use CGI;
use CGI::Pretty qw(:all *table param);

my $url = url();
# my $table1 = fqtn(@config{qw(db prefix)},"basetablename");
my $conf = parse_config_directory($url);
my $path = $0;
my $script = $0;
$script =~ s/^(.*)\///;
# $conf =~ s/$script//;
# $path =~ s/$script/conf.d\/$conf\/supporters.conf/;
my $config_conf = ReadINI ($conf);

my $copy = $conf;
$copy =~ s/\.conf/.copy/;
my %options;
$options{'heredoc'} = 1;
# my $config_copy = ReadINI ($copy,%options);
my $config_copy = ReadINI ($copy, heredoc => 1 );

my $db = $conf;
$db =~ s/\.conf/.db/;
my $config_db = ReadINI ($db);

print header("Testing parser for configuration files"),
  start_html("Testing parser for configuration files"),
  p("And the question of the hour is:  Will the config module export t
+he
form copy.  This experiment shall tell us."),
  p("Script path and name is: ".$0),
  p("Script name is: ".$script),
#  p("Scriptpath: ".$sp),
#  p("Scriptname: ".$sn),
  p("Path to configuration files at: <b>".$conf."</b>"),
  p("Script accessible at: ".$url),
#  p("Fully Qualified Table Name looks like: ".$table1),
  p("Config::IniHash says \$config = ".$config_conf."."),
  p("And the mail-abuse address is: ".$config_conf->{'mail-server'}->{
+'mail_abuse'}."."),
  p("The database name is: ".$config_db->{'db'}->{'db_name'}."."),
  p("The donor form disclaimer reads: <br>".$config_copy->{'copy'}->{'
+donor_form_disclaimer_copy'}."."),
  p(),p(),
  $supporters_conf::config{'donor_thanks'},
end_html();
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I cut the subroutines which support this.