Re: Relative paths in included files

I'm a tad confused. Do you want the exact path location of the perl script itself? You use FindBin to find that, to quote from the synopsis:

 use FindBin;
 use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";

 or

 use FindBin qw($Bin);
 use lib "$Bin/../lib";
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If you want to know the exact path of modules you're including, the %INC hash should have that.

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Re^2: Relative paths in included files by a,s5 (Initiate) on Jun 05, 2004 at 02:33 UTC
Yes! That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much. Andy	[reply]
Re^3: Relative paths in included files by a,s5 (Initiate) on Jun 05, 2004 at 03:22 UTC
Krang! No, sorry to reply to my own post here. It doesn't quite work. The FindBin::Real module does an admirable job of finding the directory for the calling script. But if there are any files included that use it, it fails in them. I want to find something that works an arbitrary number of levels deep. Here's the situation: /test.pl (in this context, Bin() should return '/') ('require's Bin()/config.pl and Bin()/scrape_courses/scrape_courses.pl) /scrape_courses/scrape_courses.pl (in this context, I want Bin() to return '/scrape_courses') ('require's Bin()/../config.pl and Bin()/scrape_courses.template) When I run test.pl, it gives me this error `Cannot find current script './test.pl' at /scrape_courses/scrape_courses.pl line 30` So it's still not doing just what I need: every file, 'require'd some arbitrary number of levels deep, needs to know the full path to itself without being hard coded. Thanks, Andy	[reply] [d/l]