User configurable output 1

[travs69]

I would like to provide a easy way for an end user to provide output configuration to my script.

for example if I have a few var's

my ($first_name, $last_name, $middle_name);
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I was thinking of having them just put in the configuration file (that they control)
ex:
Output=$last_name, $middle_name, $first_name;
or
Output = $first_name - $middle_name - $last_name;


I could then read that in, and eval it to provide that output in the format they specified?




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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[feherke]

Hi

See How can I expand variables in text strings? in man perlfaq4.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[travs69]

Thanks!

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;