in reply to Config Files in Perl

Unless you expect to users to manage multi-level data structures or complex quoted structures, I'd go with the simplest possible config file, i.e. #1. Personally, I find that Config::Tiny is about as lightweight as can be and I recommend it highly.

IMO, YAML is useful only if you expect config files to be managed by programmers.

-xdg

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