NAME Config::General - Generic Config Module SYNOPSIS use Config::General; $conf = new Config::General(-ConfigFile => "myconfig.rc"); my %config = $conf->getall; DESCRIPTION This module opens a config file and parses it's contents for you. After parsing the module returns a hash structure which contains the representation of the config file. The format of config files supported by Config::General is inspired by the well known apache config format, in fact, this module is 100% read-compatible to apache configs, but you can also just use simple name/value pairs in your config files. In addition to the capabilities of a apache config file it supports some enhancements such as here-documents, C- style comments or multiline options. It is also possible to save the config back to disk, which makes the module a perfect backend for configuration interfaces. It is possible to use variables in config files and there exists also support for object oriented access to the configuration. INSTALLATION to install, type: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install to read the complete documentation, type: perldoc Config::General perldoc Config::General::Extended perldoc Config::General::Interpolated see some example config files which can be parsed with Config::Genreal in the subdirectory t/cfg.* UPDATE If you are updating from version 1.xx, you might be interested, that some things in the API has changed, which might force you to change your application code. These changes were necessary to clean up the module interface. Now it has a consistent "look and feel" and behaves more naturally. Therefore historic remains were removed. Here is a short list: o it is no more possible to use Config::General::Extended and Config::General::Interpolated directly. Instead use Config::General and turn on -InterPolateVars and -ExtendedAccess respectively. o the method NoMultiOptions() is deprecated. Set the parameter -AllowMultiOptions to false when calling new() to create a new Config::General object. o the method save() is deprecated. Use save_file() or save_string() instead. o the parameter -file is deprecated. Use -ConfigFile instead. o the parameter -hash is deprecated. Use -ConfigHash instead. For a more detailed explanation of changes refer to the Changelog. COPYRIGHT Config::General Config::General::Extended Copyright (c) 2000-2007 by Thomas Linden Config::General::Interpolated Copyright (c) 2001 by Wei-Hon Chen Copyright (c) 2002-2007 by Thomas Linden . This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. HOMEPAGE The homepage of Config::General is located at: http://www.daemon.de/config-general/ BUGS make test does currently not catch all possible scenarios. AUTHOR Thomas Linden VERSION 2.33