Tilly suggested using __FILE__ because using cwd is not necessarily reliable. A script might have changed the current directory after it has been loaded. Additionally, a module can be loaded from any of the paths in @INC and may never have been reachable via the current directory in the first place.

Note: __FILE__ only works for packages defined in the current file. If you want to find the location of an arbitrary package, look up the package in %INC. %INC contains a set of entries like this: 

Carp.pm => '/usr/share/perl/5.8/Carp.pm'
vars.pm => '/usr/share/perl/5.8/vars.pm'
List/Util.pm  => '/usr/lib/perl/5.8/List/Util.pm'

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In %INC the module name gets ".pm" tacked onto the end and all of the '::' are replaced by '/'. I believe this transformation is consistent across platforms, so to look up the location of an arbitrary package:

   my $k = $module_name;
   $k =~ s/::/\//g;
   $k .= '.pm';
   my $path = $INC{$k};

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In reply to Re^2: current path in a package? by ELISHEVA
in thread current path in a package? by Anonymous Monk

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