[Chicago-talk] How would I do this

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Sat Mar 25 14:34:54 PST 2006


On Saturday 25 March 2006 4:04 pm, JT Smith wrote:
> That I don't know. Maybe you just open a file handle to the whole file and
> Data::General figures it out. Honestly though, I wouldn't use __DATA__
> blocks for config. Instead, I'd use something like JSON or YAML for config
> files. It's taint safe, human readable, fast parsing, supports unlimited
> nesting and data structures. It's just good all the way around.

I'm using Config::General, it's pretty nice for config files.  I just wanted 
to have a __DATA__ section and build an object that passes back the 
Config::General's parsing of the __DATA__ section.

Jay


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