Good clue, that article, thanks. Overkill, making a function out of it I 'spose, but this seems to work Ok as a script and as an .exe, even if it 'overworks' in its module loading: 
use File::Spec;
use File::Basename;

[...]

sub GetProcInfo {
   my ($path, @args);

   if (defined $PerlApp::VERSION) {
      $path = PerlApp::exe();
   } else {
      $path = File::Spec->rel2abs($0);
   }
   @args = fileparse($path,(".pl", ".exe"));
   return(@args);
}

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...and I know something like: 
(@args) = File::Spec->splitpath( $proc_path );

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could possibly be better still, except my regex is kinda bad and I can't work out how to split the type out of the file returned (I want to be able to use just the name and just the extension/type).

Thanks again for the help.

John

In reply to Re^2: Problems with Contents of $0 when using ActiveState PerlApp by ozboomer
in thread Problems with Contents of $0 when using ActiveState PerlApp by ozboomer

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