Re^2: Trouble working with Config::Simple

[parv]

Quite possibly &load_game is being called before $cfg becomes a Config::Simple object.

[...] all of my variables are defined

our @player;
our $completed_quests = 0;
our $special_item = "none";
our @enemy;
our $class = "null";
our $cfg;

From that snippet, I see some of variables being declared but not defined, namely $cfg. Missing also from the snippet are the stages at which &load_game and &Config::Simple::new are being called.

$cfg->read("'$ENV{HOME}/.kenesis'")

What's with two kinds of quotes around file name? Is a file name actually being surrounded by single quotes (on the file system)?

[vendion]

The variables are defined before everything else, the only reason the the arrays are not defined there is because they are defined later after the class as been selected. the &load_game code comes after everything is defined. The two quotes around the file name $cfg->read("'$ENV{HOME}/.kenesis'") is the only way I was able to get $cfg->read to see the .kenesis file, I'm not sure why I had to though.
I guess it would be easier for people to review the whole code, I have the project hosted on Google Code and the file can be viewed here. This should help everyone see where everything is at.

[parv]

Tell me this: at what point does $cfg get a value from &Config::Simple::new when the program is requested to load a game via load game string coming in from STDIN?

Between declaration of $cfg variable on line 31 and call to &load_game sub on line 83, $cfg remains undefined. And, what is very first statement of &load_game? It is a call to a(n) (unknown) method read on yet-to-be-defined $cfg. That is the reason for the error message.

$cfg needs to be defined (even) in &load_game sub before a method could be called on it, much like in the first statement of &new_game sub on line 107. You can do one of at least two things ...

sub load_game {

  #  No need for separate "$cfg->read( ... )".
  $cfg = Config::Simple->new( 'file' );
  
  #  or ...

  $cfg = Config::Simple->new;
  $cfg->read( 'file' );

  ...
}

Note that the solution in both forms is already presented in "READING THE CONFIGURATION FILE" section of pod.

[vendion]

Doing that just leads me into a problem in the next line: Can't call method "param" on an undefined value at kenesis.pl line 92, <STDIN> line1. My Syntax on that line, and the ones to follow, is/are just like the one posted in ACCESSING VALUES section of that documentation. @player = $cfg->param("player"); The configuration file that I am working with is using the "Simple" syntax. Sorry for all of the trouble over this.