Matts's JournalMatts's use Perl JournalI'd do it...- May 17, 2008 If I were asked to speak at google I'd ask for this too:I simply ask Google to change a few lines of code, you know, couple of minor alterations, nothing truly significant. That way, he said, anytime anybody in the world Googles, &8220;photography,&8221; they get sent to my website.From: http:www.joemcnally.comblog20080516googleNothing much. Just a few lines of code. No speaker's fee. :-)http://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/36447?from=rss Config file complication- May 2, 2008 Someone asked on IRC today what's a nice simple module to use for config files. Someone suggest YAML. Jeez, talk about not simple. And YAML is actually hard to write by hand. Someone else suggested XML with XML::Simple. Same thing - a large complex module and the config format isn't particularly user editable. No disrespect meant to those who suggested those things - I just think differently...All you usually need is INI files. Here's a simple parser I often use: sub parse_config ..http://use.perl.org/~Matts/journal/36318?from=rss |