Simple example of using data from a YAML configuration file in a Perl script

Question

I need to create a YAML file to store some configuration data for a Perl script. This seems like it should be really easy but I haven\'t been able to work it out, I think if I h

Answer 1

Try dumping out the configuration you want.

use strict;
use warnings;

use YAML;

my %settings = (
        foo => 1,
        bar => [qw/one two three/],
);

print Dump(\%settings);

This prints

---
bar:
  - one
  - two
  - three
foo: 1

Also, wikipedia has a good overview of YAML if the specification is a bit too dense.