Why would the filename put in %INC be the "proper" name? I would think it would use whatever the user typed, unless it somehow gets canonized during the search process?

Yup, it shows the name in the program, not the actual file name: 

[D:\download\public\Perl]perl -MData::Dumper -e "use cArP; print Dumpe
+r (\%%INC)"
VAR1 = {
         'Exporter.pm' => 'D:/Program Files/Perl-5.6/lib/Exporter.pm',
         'Carp.pm' => 'D:/Program Files/Perl-5.6/lib/Carp.pm',
         'XSLoader.pm' => 'D:/Program Files/Perl-5.6/lib/XSLoader.pm',
         'warnings/register.pm' => 'D:/Program Files/Perl-5.6/lib/warn
+ings/register.pm',
         'warnings.pm' => 'D:/Program Files/Perl-5.6/lib/warnings.pm',
         'overload.pm' => 'D:/Program Files/Perl-5.6/lib/overload.pm',
         'Data/Dumper.pm' => 'D:/Program Files/Perl-5.6/lib/Data/Dumpe
+r.pm',
         'cArP.pm' => 'D:/Program Files/Perl-5.6/lib/cArP.pm'
       };

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Perhaps the right place would be in the code that searches @INC for the module? If it finds something that differs only in case, and it's a case-insentive OS, issue a warning and take the file name that was actually found, so things import properly.

I don't know why, but Data::Dumper for example just doesn't work if called DaTA::Dumper, even though there is no error of any kind.

—John

In reply to Re: Re: use Module and case-insensitive file names by John M. Dlugosz
in thread use Module and case-insensitive file names by John M. Dlugosz

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