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in reply to My preferred way of handling config data in Perl is:

I was to say "who needs configure stuff, hard-code it all, so people cannot make mistakes", but then I realized that .ini files should of course be .rc files (what's in a name).

Then there are <DATA> (__END__), command-line-arg driven hash keys that make you select a prefefined configuration by key, etc. etc.