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p5-Config-General-2.67

generic configuration parser, inspired by apache

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Description

This module opens a config file and parses its contents for you. After parsing the module returns a hash structure which contains the representation of the 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% read-compatible to apache configs, but you can also just use simple name/value pairs in your config files. In addition to the capabilities of a apache config file the module supports some enhancements such as here-documents, C-style comments or multiline options. It is also possible to save the config back to disk, which makes the module a perfect backend for configuration interfaces. It is possible to use variables in config files and there also exists support for object oriented access to the configuration.

Package information

Ports path
devel/p5-Config-General
Package architecture
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Maintainer
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Categories
devel, perl5
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