That tutorial is very good, thanks a lot for that. I will definitely follow it.

I have one specific question about the templates thing still unanswered though. Say I have a module like this, and there's an essential file right there in the same directory as TestModule.pm

package TestModule;
open( FILE, '<', 'essential_file.txt' ) or die("Can't open file");
1;

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and I run it like this:

require TestModule;
print "hello world";

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It will fail (unless the script is in the same directory as TestModule).

I'm probably missing something obvious but how do I get the file path right so that TestModule.pm can find its file, no matter where it's called from?

In reply to Re^2: Tutorial on making a proper module? by Cody Fendant
in thread Tutorial on making a proper module? by Cody Fendant

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