[ic] constant hash not session dependent and ic chat area?

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting 'Lawrence Dirienzo Jr' (LarryD@musicalheritage.org):
> October 15, 2002
> 
> Hello icdevgroup.
> 
> I want to define a hash variable as a constant that is not specific to a
> session that I will use for referencing constant values.
> 
> Can I have this catalog level hash?  What would the syntax look like if
> I were to put it in catalog.cfg, catalog_after or catalog_before.
> 

There is a predefined Hash directive that you can use, also, which
just wants:

	Hash   foo   bar

Available as $Config->{Hash}{foo}.

But you can also define as many as you want.

In interchange.cfg:

    AddDirective  MyConfigHash  hash

Then in catalog.cfg:

    MyConfigHash   foo bar
    MyConfigHash   buz baz

At the end of all this, you have in $Vend::Cfg:

    MyConfigHash => { foo => 'bar', buz => 'baz' },

And a calc or embedded Perl of

  [calc] return $Config->{MyConfigHash}{foo} [/calc]

will return 'bar' to the page.

This is sketchily documented, now that I look at it.

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Mike Heins
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