devel/p5-Config-General 2.67 OpenBSD

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.