You could set up environment variables to specify your folders, and then use them. It's nearly exactly what you listed in your code snippet:

my $sms8x81 = $ENV{SMS8X81} . "/src";

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Then you can just use the SMS8X81 environment variable to point to the directory you want. (Note: I used forward slashes, because most OS (including windows) will happily use them for directory separators. The only time I have troubles with forward slashes is when I'm trying to execute shell commands from perl, but as I rarely do that, forward slashes work quite well for me.)

You could also get the directory name from the command line, from user input, a database or whatever you like. You didn't specify much in the way of details, so I don't know what direction you were thinking of going.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Dynamic detection of a folder based on the location given by roboticus
in thread Dynamic detection of a folder based on the location given by Anonymous Monk

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