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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