find out the way program was called.

coldhawk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was just thinking, what would be the best way to regonize how is the program being called. What i real mean is, that im trying to find out if it's exec directly or is another perl program using it with require, and do actions based on that. I couldn't find any portable solutions to this, maybe i was searching with wrong search words, but anyway. i would appreciate of any help you may give.

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Re: find out the way program was called. by tilly (Archbishop) on Apr 09, 2004 at 01:14 UTC
`if ($0 eq __FILE__) { print "Called directly\n"; } else { print "Loaded in a library\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: find out the way program was called. by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Apr 09, 2004 at 00:47 UTC
If the program knows its own name, `$0` may help. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: find out the way program was called. by esskar (Deacon) on Apr 09, 2004 at 01:22 UTC
perldoc -f caller is maybe also a good hint.	[reply]