NAME Config::General - Generic Config Module SYNOPSIS use Config::General; $conf = new Config::General("rcfile"); my %config = $conf->getall; DESCRIPTION This small module opens a config file and parses it's contents for you. The new method requires one parameter which needs to be a filename. The method getall returns a hash which contains all options and it's associated values of your config file. The format of config files supported by Config::General is inspired by the well known apache config format, in fact, this module is 100% compatible to apache configs, but you can also just use simple name/value pairs in your config files. In addition to the capabilities of an apache config file it supports some enhancements such as here-documents, C- style comments or multiline options. INSTALLATION to install, type: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install to read the complete documentation, type: perldoc Config::General perldoc Config::General::Extended see some example config files which can be parsed with Config::Genreal in the subdirectory t/cfg.* COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Thomas Linden This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. BUGS none known yet. AUTHOR Thomas Linden VERSION 1.27