Not that I advocate this way of accomplishing the task (I personally despise global variables being set in an external file), but useing a config file can be as simple as this:

# filename: config
$var1 = "First value";
$var2 = "Second value";
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...and then in your script:

use config;
print "$var1 and $var2";
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