Re: Including files

[jidanni]

Nowadays,

$ cat config.pl
# This is config.pl
mirror     => 'http://www.nl.example.com/mirror',
path       => '/var/www/example',
skip_files => [ 'png', 'gif', 'jpg' ],
$ cat script.pl
# This is script.pl
use strict;
my %config = do 'config.pl';
chdir $config{path};
$ perl script.pl
$ perl -w script.pl
Odd number of elements in hash assignment at script.pl line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at script.pl line 3.
Use of uninitialized value $config{"path"} in chdir at script.pl line 
+4.
$

[afoken]

I would avoid configuration files containing executable code. There are many better alternatives: Re: Accessing variables in an external hash without eval

Alexander

[haukex]

Nowadays,

FWIW, the code still works fine for me under 5.24.1 on Linux. However, I can suggest you try replacing 'config.pl' by './config.pl', as discussed here. Also, it's a good idea to add the error checking to do as shown in its documentation.