everything e-diotic

I am in the process of migrating some configuration data out of a module and into a configuration file.

I have been using AppConfig, but it’s goal seems to be something a bit different from what I want.

I have a deep data structure and I just want to be able to deserialize this from a file. Some of the attributes needs to be converted into references to arrays etc.

So I made a swift search on http://search.cpan.org located Config::General.

I am skimming through the code and I fall over a section with a complex example:

Code block

user   = hans
server = mc200
db     = maxis
passwd = D3rf$
<jonas>
user    = tom
db      = unknown
host    = mila
<tablestructure>;
index   int(100000)
name    char(100)
prename char(100)
city    char(100)
status  int(10)
allowed moses
allowed ingram
allowed joice
</tablestructure>
</jonas>

If you look at the example, it contains the string jonas. This word can be uttered in a large group of people with additional background noise, it can be written in a huge text document – and my senses will always pick it up easily – for the hearing part this is referred to as the cocktail party effect. I have no knowledge of an equivalent for reading, but to get back to the example and Config::General.

The match between my name and the example string, is of course purely coincidental, but how can I NOT try out this module now? – better give it a shot.

(Cross-posted on livejournal.com)