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ChemBoy already noted that $0 contains the name of the script, not the name of the current file.

But he didn't point out that including "." includes the current working directory in @INC, which has no connection with the location of the file your code is in. Furthermore including "." explicitly is redundant - Perl includes "." in @INC already.

The information about variables is covered, of course, in perlvar. The __FILE__ literal in perldata. And the knowledge of what directory "." is is covered in any introduction to filesystems.

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Re: Re (tilly) 2: Breaking a script into smaller files
by Flame (Deacon) on Nov 13, 2001 at 03:09 UTC
    Well, the question itself did ask for the path to the script... not the current file. Or did I read it wrong?

    Regardles... I was just posting something that had worked for me when I needed a similar problem solved.

    If what I said was completely wrong, though, thank you for pointing it out.


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