If you're already using Getopt::Long, then try Getopt::ArgvFile - this lets you implement config files with as little as one line of code:

use Getopt::ArgvFile default=>1;
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See http://perl.jonallen.info/talks/optionprocessing and http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/07/12/options-and-configuration.html for more details.