This is one of those questions you get in a job interview and you sit there thinking:

   hmmm, this is an easy question
   hmmm, there must be an obvious answer
   why the hell don't I know it?! this is embarrassing
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But anyway, I just required the full path of a file and realized I did not know how to get it! And it is not one of the File::Stat methods. Nor did it seem to be part of File::Spec. In fact after looking thru search.cpan.org, I did not anything to help me.

So I turn to my monestary brethren in need of a quicksol.