in reply to Finding a file associated with a module

If you're actually in the file to which you want to find other relative files, simply look at the value of __FILE__. For example, the directory in which your module is contained is:
use File::Basename; my $location_in_space = dirname(__FILE__);

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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