in reply to How to determine absolute path of current Perl file?

hello hakonhagland and welcome to the monastery,

probably i do not fully understand your question (in case i'm sorry) but is not abs_path from core module Cwd what you need? anyway the last module you cited is fairly simple to understand: it cycles @INC and tries possible instances of file, the same way Perl does when you use a module.

Just a dozen of lines plus an half doze to handle the path separator of different OS.

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Re^2: How to determine absolute path of current Perl file?
by hakonhagland (Scribe) on Feb 29, 2016 at 10:29 UTC
    Hi Discipulus! Thanks for your reply. My understanding is that Cwd::abs_path() uses the current directory, but that directory may not be equal to the initial current directory (for example if the user has called chdir). Regarding Module::Path, yes it could work.. but not all perl files are modules, for example the main script ./test/test.pl. Also I think there is no reason to cycle all the @INC directories for the given module, when it always (if the path is relative) will be under (that is, relative to) the initial current directory.
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