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You don't want to create one, you want to use one that someone has already created for you on CPAN. The example I gave uses "ini" style configuration files, which is just a text file with variables and values separated by an equals sign -- it's not Perl, just text. Config::Tiny takes care of reading that and turning it into Perl data that your program can use.

If you haven't installed modules from CPAN before, see Installing Modules.

To help understand the difference between modules versus just including files, you might also want to read Including files.

-xdg

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Re^4: Perl configuration files
by rbnorthcutt (Initiate) on Sep 15, 2006 at 17:14 UTC
    thanks for all the help with this. im going to look more into this Config::Tiny. thank you again
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