From: Vincent Arnoux Date: 2006-08-12T01:40:15+09:00 Subject: Assign an unknown value to an unknown variable Hello, I would like to read a configuration file written this way: abcd = one efgh = two ijkl = three I would like to read this file and be able to call variable abcd. I could do it using a hashtable, but I would like to know if there is something easier that would do the equivalent of abcd = 'one' and let me use abcd directly. Vincent