perl-Config-Std

Load and save configuration files in a standard format

This module implements yet another damn configuration-file system. The configuration language is deliberately simple and limited, and the module works hard to preserve as much information (section order, comments, etc.) as possible when a configuration file is updated. The whole point of Config::Std is to encourage use of one standard layout and syntax in config files. Damian says "I could have gotten away with it, I would have only allowed one separator. But it proved impossible to choose between ':' and '=' (half the people I asked wanted one, half wanted the other)." Providing round-trip file re-write is the spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. The supported syntax is within the general INI file family See Chapter 19 of "Perl Best Practices" (O'Reilly, 2005) for more detail on the rationale for this approach.