# Parent script resides in /usr/local/myproject/bin # Module and config file reside in /usr/local/myproject/lib use FindBin qw($Bin); sub get_config { my $CONFIGPATH = "$Bin/../lib/acme.config"; open (CONFIG, "<$CONFIGPATH") or die "$0: File '$CONFIGPATH': $!"; undef $/; my $c=; close CONFIG; return $c; }