in reply to Paths not added to @INC

G'day yeti,

Welcome to the monastery.

The @INC listing you show is from your Mac OS X System perl (i.e. /usr/bin/perl).

The location of PDF::FromHTML (i.e. /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.4) suggests MacPorts perl (i.e. /opt/local/bin/perl).

If you run your script as MacPorts perl, that will probably fix your problem; however, I don't know how you are running it. If you're using something like 

$ script_name.pl

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then you probably need to change the shebang line (that's line 1 in your script) to start with 

#!/opt/local/bin/perl

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If you're using something like 

$ perl script_name.pl

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then changing it to 

$ /opt/local/bin/perl script_name.pl

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should fix your immediate problem but will be a pain to type in every time you run a script. What you really want is for perl to point to /opt/local/bin/perl: see your MacPorts documentation for how to set this up.

-- Ken

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Re^2: Paths not added to @INC
by yeti (Initiate) on Aug 12, 2013 at 07:51 UTC

    Thanks for the quick responses guys.

    I have corrected the path in the shebang and it has started working...

    ... of course I am now getting a different error but that's only to be expected from my first script. :P

    Thanks for the help!

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      Hello yeti, and welcome to the Monastery!

      of course I am now getting a different error

      As you are “very new to Perl,” I will draw your attention to the following excellent tutorial from the Monastery’s archives:

      In particular, it’s a good idea to begin each script with:

      use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

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      Hope that helps,

      Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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[d/l]

        Thanks, that'll be very useful.

        As it turns out, my error was a simple missed ";". I'm going along nicely now.

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