Quote: BTW - an absolute path has no "perspective", its an absolute path.

What I meant by that statement is that I don't want the absolute path of the script that's calling the module, I want the absolute path of the module the script is calling - that's the difference in perspective.

Quote: Try it again, because that works. If it doesn't work for you, upgrade File::Spec.

Well, here's proof of what you're saying, I give you FOO.pm: 

package FOO; 
use File::Spec;

require Exporter; 
@ISA = qw(Exporter); 
@EXPORT = qw(bar); 

sub bar { 
    print File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__) . "\n";
}


1;

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And here's a test cgi script: 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use FOO; 

use CGI qw(:standard); 
print header(); 

FOO::bar();

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Prints: /home/user/www/cgi-bin/test.pl

But (of course, sigh), my not as tiny program is still giving me the not-so-absolute path. It's almost as if it thinks the absolute path *starts* at the lib directory.

Hmm. I'll come post back if I can figure something else out, must be some weird gremlin hunting about.

 

-justin simoni
!skazat!

In reply to Re^2: finding the absolute path to a module, from the module's, perspective by skazat
in thread finding the absolute path to a module, from the module's, perspective by skazat

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