Re^2: Tutorial on making a proper module?

That tutorial is very good, thanks a lot for that. I will definitely follow it.

I have one specific question about the templates thing still unanswered though. Say I have a module like this, and there's an essential file right there in the same directory as TestModule.pm

package TestModule;
open( FILE, '<', 'essential_file.txt' ) or die("Can't open file");
1;
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and I run it like this:

require TestModule;
print "hello world";
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It will fail (unless the script is in the same directory as TestModule).

I'm probably missing something obvious but how do I get the file path right so that TestModule.pm can find its file, no matter where it's called from?

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Re^3: Tutorial on making a proper module? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 14, 2016 at 04:39 UTC
The "official" way for data files is File::ShareDir / File::ShareDir::Install ... The old official way is `File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__)` ... there is File::FindLib ... since FindBin is broken	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Tutorial on making a proper module? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 14, 2016 at 09:56 UTC
Is it still broken? This reply to the discussion you linked to hints otherwise. ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-\|\|-\|5+lengthSq)`"S\|oS2"`map{chr \|+ord }map{substrSq`S_+\|`\|}3E\|-\|`7**2-3:)=~y+S\|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a, [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Tutorial on making a proper module? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 14, 2016 at 10:16 UTC
yes, like said there, still broken on all the old perls.... findbin isn't on cpan , findbin is only in perl, its not dual lived, thus all the old ones are broken	[reply]
Re^4: Tutorial on making a proper module? by Cody Fendant (Hermit) on Jan 14, 2016 at 06:13 UTC
OK that's more complex than I was hoping for, but that's very helpful, thanks. I might just stuff them into scalars and add another module to return them for the time being. Don't judge me!	[reply]