Ah, that helps tremendously. But why use such an arcane format for a conf file? I don't know a lot about programming in perl, but it seems likely that someone already has a module that you can import that would make the conf file look like every other conf file out there.

A quick google search turns up http://search.cpan.org/~kane/Config-...Config/Auto.pm which seems to be useful.

-nyu2