Quote: BTW - an absolute path has no "perspective", its an absolute path.

What I meant by that statement is that I don't want the absolute path of the script that's calling the module, I want the absolute path of the module the script is calling - that's the difference in perspective.

Quote: Try it again, because that works. If it doesn't work for you, upgrade File::Spec.

Well, here's proof of what you're saying, I give you FOO.pm:

package FOO; 
use File::Spec;

require Exporter; 
@ISA = qw(Exporter); 
@EXPORT = qw(bar); 

sub bar { 
    print File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__) . "\n";
}


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#!/usr/bin/perl 

use FOO; 

use CGI qw(:standard); 
print header(); 

FOO::bar();
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Prints: /home/user/www/cgi-bin/test.pl

But (of course, sigh), my not as tiny program is still giving me the not-so-absolute path. It's almost as if it thinks the absolute path *starts* at the lib directory.

Hmm. I'll come post back if I can figure something else out, must be some weird gremlin hunting about.

Well it works for me. File::Spec 0.88, Cwd 2.20.

What does it print for you from the commandline?

Are you sure what you think is getting loaded is in fact getting loaded. Try appending

print "$_\n" for %INC";
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Also, try just printing __FILE__

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).

** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

This is pretty weird, but I think I've figured it out;

doing a,

 
print __FILE__;
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inside my module will return something like:

 
/lib/Stuff/Template.pm

File::Spec has a method called, file_name_is_absolute(), which basically on Unix, looks for a '/' as the first character ->

 
sub file_name_is_absolute {
    my ($self,$file) = @_;
    return scalar($file =~ m:^/:s);
}
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File::Spec will consult this method before it tries to piece together a absolute path; thus, File::Spec isn't even attempting to make an absolute path from the information from __FILE__

The workaround I've done is simply to hack the first, '/' off.

Changing my FOO.pm to something like:

 
package FOO; 
use File::Spec;

require Exporter; 
@ISA = qw(Exporter); 
@EXPORT = qw(bar); 

sub bar { 
    print __FILE__; 
    print '<p>';
    print File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__) . "\n";
}


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Will print:

lib/FOO.pm

/usr/home/user/www/cgi-bin/lib/FOO.pm

So, it doesn't look like it's *really* File::Spec's fault, but what would cause Perl to put a '/' at the beginning of the path in my module?

Hmm...

 

-justin simoni
!skazat!