that is a very basic hash reference
i have a reference tutorial up, if you want to read more
find it at: www.sharemation.com/~perl/tut
hth
Jos Boumans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Musson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 6:24 PM
Subject: Re[5]: Best practice for config file use?
> Hey Jos,
>
> I like this option the best of the 3, but it is still hard to give to
> a non programing person and not expect them to mess up setting the
> vars...
>
> ie, => is what you separate things with, explaining which ' to
> use (' not `), end each parameter line with a ,
>
> Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 6:15:54 PM, you wrote:
>
> JIB> 2. script that just uses one hashref to hold all the vars you
> JIB> need, let's call it config.pl too
>
> JIB> ### config.pl ###
> JIB> $href = {
> JIB> usr => 'foo',
> JIB> pwd => 'bar',
> JIB> host => 'bleh.com',
> JIB> };
>
> JIB> ### in your script you'd say: ###
> JIB> require 'config.pl'
> JIB> use vars qw($href); #now it's just one variable that's being used,
still
> JIB> holding all your config data
>
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