note spatterson <p> Oh, so many options *grin* [cpan://Appconfig::File] or [cpan://XML::Simple] for persistent configuration. AppConfig::File's easy to edit manually, XML::Simple is handy if you want perl to edit its own config file. </p> <p> Plus <code>my</code> vars for quick & dirty hacks & command line parameters sometimes as well. </p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-486202"> <hr/> just another cpan module author </div></div> 589705 589705