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You might be interested in a poll, My preferred way of handling config data in Perl is:

If you really have to have Perl code in your config file, then the simplest solution is a file you can do or require. In fact, that option got the most votes in the poll I just referenced.

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Re^2: Config file recommendations?
by Spidy (Chaplain) on Mar 19, 2008 at 14:52 UTC
    That does seem to be what I'm looking for - if I had a config file like this: 
    %config = (
foo => bar,
bat => baz,
);

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    How would I use that inside my Perl script, and have it globally available? Would require config; automatically setup the %config hash for the script that required it?
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      I think maybe you're looking for Exporter. With it, you can have a module that will place a variable into the namespace of a program that uses it.

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        This is what I've been trying, but it doesn't quite seem to work:

        use Exporter;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw(%config);
%config = (
foo => bar,
baz => bat
);

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        But I would still get the error Global symbol "%config" requires explicit package name. The code to use my config file was:

        use config;
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