in reply to Environment Variable for residing directory

Environment Variablesenvironmental variables are accessed through %ENV, you can see them all if you
use Data::Dumper; print Dumper( \%ENV );

What you want is to read How do I get the full path to the script executing?

update: yes, Environment Variables

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