Hello! I am new to Perl (I usually write Java) and I am trying to write some programs in Perl that use Telnet and acquire some info from some machines. What I want to do is: to have a conf file in Perl syntax like: 
$config = {
    host_1 => '192.168.1.1', 
    host_2 => '192.168.1.2', 
    host_3 => '192.168.1.3', 
    host_4 => '192.168.1.4'
};

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...and read this into my program and store it in an array. The reason I want to do this is because I want to use the IP of each host, Telnet to it and store to a file the output of some commands using as a filename the host's name (host_1, host_2 etc). I am familiar with arrays (@), but I am not sure how to access various elements of hashes. Can anybody help me? Thank you in advance.

In reply to conf file in Perl syntax by Ravendark

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