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- 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 <tom@daemon.de>
-
- Config::General::Interpolated
- Copyright (c) 2001 by Wei-Hon Chen <plasmaball@pchome.com.tw>
- Copyright (c) 2002-2007 by Thomas Linden <tom@daemon.de>.
-
- 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 <tlinden |AT| cpan.org>
-
-
- VERSION
- 2.45
-