How can you get a handle on the directory that a module is located in from within that module's code?

Try __FILE__. See perldata, section "special literals". Drop the file's basename from that string, possibly using File::Basename.

A test revealed that this can produce a relative path; rel2abs() from File::Spec::Functions can remedy that.

For example, test module Foo.pm: 

package Foo;
use File::Spec::Functions qw(rel2abs);
use File::Basename;
my $dir = (fileparse(rel2abs(__FILE__)))[1];

print "Foo directory: $dir\n";
1;

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IMO it's safest to indeed set a variable with this directory in the top level of the module, as I do here, so it always gets set when the module is loaded.

In reply to Re: Directory of PM file by bart
in thread Directory of PM file by tomazos

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