Esteemed Monks,

Is there any simple and practical way to include txt files in a module?

This is my problem:

I have a package named Foo::Foo1::Foo2::FooPackageName This reads 3 text files (data sources) 

   my @files = qw/file1 file2 file3/;
   foreach my $file (@files) {
        open( INFILE, '<', './lib/Foo/Foo1/Foo2/'
         . $file . ".txt" )
        or die "$0 : ERROR : could not open file '"
         . $file . ".txt' : $!\n";

        [CODE HERE]
   }

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Now, when I do a perl Makefile.PL, make, make test and make install everything runs fine. (The MANIFEST also includes those 3 files)

Then, I can see the files in the right directory (/usr/lib/etc...)

But, when I try to run some program using that module it complains about not getting the files.

What am I doing wrong or missing here?

---------------- UPDATE -----

Maybe I wasn't clear enough before.
Let me put it this way:

Q1. Is it possible to include txt files (as data sources) inside a Perl package? (not to dump the contents as some kind of variables; the idea is to keep those files intact)

Q2. How do I do that in a portable way? this is, no matter what system is running the module, those files are always accessible (probably in the same directory where the module is)

------------------ UPDATE -----

Miguel

In reply to Including text files in Modules by Miguel

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