in reply to Module Self-Location

Embrace the %INC hash. $INC{"MyModule.pm"}

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Re: Re: Module Self-Location
by impossiblerobot (Deacon) on Feb 08, 2002 at 16:54 UTC
    Thanks, japhy! I spent a lot of time searching all over the place because I thought I had seen an easy way to do this. But I had forgotten that %INC was setting there holding just exactly the information I was looking for. :-)

    Update: Here's my updated self-locating module: 
    package MyModule;

use strict;

my $inc_dir = $INC{'MyModule.pm'};

$inc_dir =~ s!/MyModule.pm$!!;

print "MyModule found at: $inc_dir\n";

1;

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    Update 2: After a little more searching, I finally found the original node I was looking for: Read a static file from module directory.

    Impossible Robot
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