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in thread Config file recommendations?

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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Re^3: Config file recommendations?
by kyle (Abbot) on Mar 19, 2008 at 15:21 UTC

    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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        Main file: 

        use strict;
use warnings;
use lib '.';

use MyConfig;
use Data::Dumper;

print Dumper \%config;

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        MyConfig.pm: 

        package MyConfig;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Exporter;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);

our %config;
our @EXPORT = qw(%config);

%config = (
           foo => 'bar',
           baz => 'bat',
       );

1;

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        And the output: 

        $VAR1 = {
          'baz' => 'bat',
          'foo' => 'bar'
        };

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