in reply to Finding the name of the current file

The current input file name (if any) lives in $ARGV.

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Re^2: Finding the name of the current file
by mldvx4 (Hermit) on Nov 14, 2021 at 19:44 UTC

    Thanks. That was it. I had tried about everything except that specific way, including re-reading perlvar(1) many times.

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