use strict; my $importConfigurationFile = substr($0,0,2) . "/copra-server/common/configuration/configuration.properties"; our %configValue; print "\nstarting importconfiguration.pl\n"; open(FILE,$importConfigurationFile); while(defined(my $line = )) { if ($line =~ m/.*=.*/g){ chomp($line); my $key = substr($line,0,index($line,"=")); my $value = substr($line,index($line,"=")+1,length($line)); #print "key is: $key -----> value is: $value\n"; $configValue{"$key"}="$value"; } } close(FILE); while ((my $currentKey,my $currentValue) = each %configValue){ print "key, value pair is ($currentKey,$currentValue)\n"; } print "-------import finished -----------------------\n";