Config::IniFiles , all methods return fail?

[Ahmet]

Hi,

I'm testing Config::IniFiles module; this module working well before but now what happened, module methods are not running and returning fail...

Here is my example;

use Config::IniFiles;
$overlay = Config::IniFiles->new(-file => 'test.ini');
$overlay->newval("section1", "arg1", "anotherval");
$overlay->WriteConfig(-delta=>1);

Running... return "fail"

C:\Documents and Settings\...\Desktop>t.pl

Can't call method "newval" on an undefined value at C:\Documents and Settings\...\Desktop\t.pl line 3.

Ridiculous...

OS: Windows XP
Perl : v5.8.9 build 828
Config::IniFiles : v2.66

Regards. Ahmet,thank you...

[linuxer]

The module fails to create an object. As a result $overlay is undefined.

You should check the result of object creation and have a look at @Config::IniFiles::errors upon failure.

my $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => 'test.ini' ) 
  or die "Failed to create Config::IniFiles object: @Config::IniFiles:
+:errors\n";

addendum: example:

0 linuxer@host /tmp $ cat /tmp/a.pl && perl /tmp/a.pl
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Config::IniFiles;


my $overlay = Config::IniFiles->new(-file => 'test.ini')
        or die "Failure: @Config::IniFiles::errors\n";

$overlay->newval("section1", "arg1", "anotherval");
$overlay->WriteConfig(-delta=>1);

__END__

Failure: Empty file treated as error
255 linuxer@host /tmp $

[Ahmet]

Hmm interesting because i'm 5 years programmer... (my head is not in place :))

C:\Documents and Settings\...\Desktop>t.pl
Failed to create Config::IniFiles object: Empty file treated as error

I understand... Ok running now, no problem... "-allowempty => 1" <= including parameter to "new" method and entering value is "1" and allowing "empty file"...

Thank you very much linuxer .

Regards.

[John M. Dlugosz]

Maybe the test.ini file got messed up.

Any way to determine why new returns undef?