On Feb 18, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Mark Wheeler wrote:
Hi,
Just a quick question. Is it possible to have a bunch of variables in a separate file and then require that file in the script file?
It's generally not a wise choice. Better to use something like Data::Dumper to write the data to a file, then load it back in the way the Data::Dumper manpage describes. Or YAML (as Rich pointed out), or Storable, etc.
If you don't like that approach, consider at *least* wrapping it in a subroutine:
---------------------------------------------------------- Script file ----------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; require variables.conf
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
foreach (&list) {
print;
}exit;
--------------------------------------------------------- variables.conf ---------------------------------------------------------
my @list;
$list[0] = '1'; $list[1] = '2'; $list[2] = '3'; $list[3] = '4'; $list[4] = '5';
sub list { @list }1; ---------------------------------------------------------
