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NAME

Config::NameValue - Round trip simple name/value config file handling.

VERSION

This document describes v1.03 of Config::NameValue - released February 09, 2012 as part of Config-NameValue.

SYNOPSIS

use Config::NameValue;
my $c = Config::NameValue->new( 'config.file' );

DESCRIPTION

Load simple name=value pair configuration files and save them.

Blank lines and comments are ignored.

# Begin config file

# Everything up to here will be ignored but continued in saved file.

name1=value1
name2=value2 # everything after the octothorpe will be ignored but be saved in the file when changes are made

METHODS

new

Returns a Config::NameValue object. Can optionally be passed a filename, which will be loaded via the load command.

load

Loads and parses the specified configuration file.

Leading and trailing whitespace are stripped.

name1=value1
  name1=value1   # are equivalent

save

Saves the configuration, with any changes, to a file.

If no filename is passed the original file is overwritten, otherwise a new file will be created.

As a special case, if the original filename is explicitly passed to save and there have been no changes an exception will be thrown.

get

Returns the value for the requested name, undef for nonexistant or empty names.

set

Modifies the requested name with the supplied value.

If the name does not exist it will be created and saved with a comment indicating that it was added by this program

error

Returns the most recent error

INSTALLATION

See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.

AUTHOR

Alan Young <harleypig@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Alan Young.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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