-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Oops. I should have specified: the directory in which the program is located; which should be the same as the directory of the process since I'm not using any chdir calls.

Thanks,

Jon

Update: further clarification per Merlyn's advice below: I will only be running the scripts from the directory they are in.

Oops. I should have specified: the directory in which the program is located; which should be the same as the directory of the process since I'm not using any chdir calls.

No, that's precisely the thinking that will get you into trouble, which is why I asked the question I did.

When I invoke "some/path/to/script", my current directory hasn't changed, but the script is located in some other directory. So I wanted to know which of the two you wanted: the current directory, or the directory of the script.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Another way to do it:

   use File::Basename;
   my $dir = dirname $0;
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Or, if you are *sure* that you will only be running the scripts from the directory that they are in, you can specify relative paths starting from ".".

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If you want the user's current default directory, look at perldoc Cwd.

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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