in reply to YAML + template/reuse

Well, YAML files are text files, which means you can solve your problem with the usual text templating modules, like Template::Toolkit, Text::Template and even HTML::Template::Compiled.

Alternatively you can build a default yaml config file and an overriding yaml config, and merge these (for example with Hash::Merge, or "manually") and write a resulting yaml file from the result.

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Re^2: YAML + template/reuse
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 30, 2007 at 14:21 UTC
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      BTW, when merging can I delete some keys? Something like:

      # parent.yaml
foo:
  bar: 2
  baz: 3

# child.yaml
foo:
  bar: 4 # override foo/bar
  *baz: whatever # undefine baz, prompt users to choose

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      OR baz: delete!

      I don't see that option in Hash::Merge. Other module, perhaps?

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