Re^5: 'do' command is dead? Surely not?

You don't show us the output of the file existence tests. Maybe the filename has whitespace at its end. If -f 'whatever.pl' fails, then for sure, Perl cannot see that file, for whatever reason.

Also, the interesting variable is @INC, not %INC.

You can also check if do './whatever.pl' works for you. That would also work around the problem of . not being in @INC.

You can also check if do '/home/Andy/Desktop/whatever.pl' works for you. That would also work around the problem of . not being in @INC.

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Re^6: 'do' command is dead? Surely not? by ACI (Acolyte) on May 19, 2017 at 15:08 UTC
AHHH!!! `my $file='/home/andy/Desktop/test-response.pl';` works!!!! I'm assuming something happened in a recent update. Edit - `'./test-response.pl'` works too. EDIT2 - `use lib '.'; my $file='test-response.pl';` also works (but, given that my Perl portfolio contains thousands of these, is there a way of telling Perl never to require the absolute path, other than `use lib '.'`? I think I now understand the importance of `'.'` in `@INC`, but soooooo many scripts to edit!)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: 'do' command is dead? Surely not? by Corion (Patriarch) on May 19, 2017 at 17:13 UTC
See perlrun on how to modify `@INC` globally via `$ENV{PERL5LIB}`. Personally, I would modify the scripts on an as-needed basis.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: 'do' command is dead? Surely not? by ACI (Acolyte) on May 19, 2017 at 15:03 UTC
Thanks, Corion `if (-e $file){ print "File exists\n"; } if (-f $file){ print "File is plain\n"; }` [download] produces both messages `@INC` contains `/etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.24.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.24 /usr/share/perl/5.24 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]