NAME Config::INI::Reader::Multiline - Parser for .ini files with continuation lines SYNOPSIS If act.ini contains: [general] conferences = ye2003 fpw2004 \ apw2005 fpw2005 hpw2005 ipw2005 npw2005 ye2005 \ apw2006 fpw2006 ipw2006 npw2006 cookie_name = act searchlimit = 20 And your program does: my $config = Config::INI::Reader::Multiline->read_file('act.ini'); Then $config contains: { general => { cookie_name => 'act', conferences => 'ye2003 fpw2004 apw2005 fpw2005 hpw2005 ipw2005 npw2005 ye2005 apw2006 fpw2006 ipw2006 npw2006', searchlimit => '20' } } DESCRIPTION Config::INI::Reader::Multiline is a subclass of Config::INI::Reader that offers support for line continuations, i.e. adding a "\" (backslash-newline) at the end of a line to indicate the newline should be removed from the input stream and ignored. In this implementation, the backslash can be followed and preceded by whitespace, which will be ignored too (just as whitespace is trimmed by Config::INI::Reader. AUTHOR Philippe Bruhat (BooK), COPYRIGHT Copyright 2014-2015 Philippe Bruhat (BooK), all rights reserved. LICENSE This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.