Hi all, I'm trying to pass a filename into Log::Std, as is noted in the documenation for Log::StdLog:

use Log::StdLog { file => $filename };

Normally, Log::StdLog logs messages to a file named "$0.log" (that is, the current filename with .log appended. But if you pass a 'file' option, it uses that file as its logfile instead.

However, this only works if I specify the filename as $0.log and not $filename.

I found what I thought might have been the answer at the CPAN RT page for Log::Std, where someone posted a test script with the following code:

use Log::StdLog { file => "$0.log" }; # OK
#use Log::StdLog { file => $filename }; # NOT OK

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where the second option is commented out because it doesn't work (but it's what I want). Similarly, I tried using the following code suggested as a workaround on that same page: 
use Log::StdLog; # at compile time
my $file = "$config{dir}". basename($0) .".log.$$"; # at run time
my $level = 'warn';
# specify file at runtime (below).
Log::StdLog->import ({ level => $level, file => $file } ); # works, ru
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Although this is what I want, it only works if you don't specify  use strict; use warnings;. And, of course, I have these in my code, and want to stick with them.

Doing a Supersearch and google turned up nothing that I haven't already seen. Anybody ran into this before or have any thoughts as to how I can pass in a filename?

-- Burvil

In reply to Passing filename to Log::Std by bowei_99

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