Appconfig is a bundle of perl5 modules for reading configuration files and parsing command line arguments. note that writing configuration files is not supported at this time.

appconfig supports a relaxed configuration file syntax with support for flags (booleans), single and multivalue (lists or hashes) items. a defined default and validation routine or regex can be defined for each option.

environment variable, file variable and tilde (~) are supported and may be applied to selected configuration options. for long blocks of text you can also use perl heredoc syntax. additionally there is also a mechanism to utilise all these same features via a cgi.