Re^3: evaluating a string into the executing program

Are you trying to execute the content of the config files? If so, a simple require "config.pl" (or whatever the config file/script is named) will do that.

If you just need to extract specific information from the config file without executing it, then that gets a bit trickier, yeah. I can't really say how to handle that case without a sample of what one of these files looks like, which contents you want from it, and what you want to do with them.

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Re^4: evaluating a string into the executing program by deorth (Scribe) on Jul 14, 2007 at 04:33 UTC
Well, simplistically I could do : `open(FILE, "< $file") \|\| die "Couldn't open $file: $!\n"; @array = <FILE>; ## Assume no multiline stuff.. for now @strings = grep(/^\s\@$arrayname\s=\s*/, @array);` [download] $string[0] then contains the piece of perl code I wish to execute. Now I thought of really hacky stuff like dropping it into a tempfile and then require'ing the file, but thats just icky. :)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: evaluating a string into the executing program
by deorth (Scribe) on Jul 14, 2007 at 04:33 UTC

open(FILE, "< $file") || die "Couldn't open $file: $!\n";
@array = <FILE>; ## Assume no multiline stuff.. for now
@strings = grep(/^\s*\@$arrayname\s*=\s*/, @array);
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