Hi, I've read the perl monks tutorial on including files and I think I understood most of it. But I would still like to include a file, so I'm going to ask anyway ;-) The file I'd like to include is sort of like an argument to the script - sort of like a config file but more complex and varies when I call the script. There are a whole bunch of them and I'd I like to be able to say:
$ my-script.plx <file> <more arguments>
(Or more likely, in the shell:
$ for i in *some-pattern* ; do my-script.plx $i <further args> ; done)
Usually when I do this the file is very simple, but in this case it has structure, so I coded that in perl like:

%hash1 = (fruits => ["apple", "pear"], 
          things => ["table", "chair"]
         );

%hash2 = (fruits => ["pear", "banana"]
          countries => ["Turkey"]
         );
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Using pure text and parsing it with split, ... instead of Perl code seems like quite a hassle I'd like to avoid. Is there any way to do this in Perl? The one thing I didn't understand is what "eval" does, and I couldn't get the syntax right for this one. Does anyone have a hint for me? I'd also welcome ideas on how to re-design this, if it's the case that I'm being blind as to a much easier way ;-)