get absolute path of the module inside it

hi,
Today I had a rather awkward need. Inside a module I had to get a resource which was in directory relative to the module..hmm
After some thinking i got to this idea

(my $pkgdir =  __PACKAGE__) =~ s!::!/!;
my ($path) = $INC{"$pkgdir.pm"} =~ m!^(.+)/!;
print $path;
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I thought it will be usefull so I post it here..hth

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Re: get absolute path of the module inside it by merlyn (Sage) on May 18, 2007 at 12:36 UTC
If you're within the file in question, this is simpler: `my $FULLPATH; BEGIN { use Cwd (); $FULLPATH = Cwd::abs_path(__FILE__) }` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: get absolute path of the module inside it by Anonymous Monk on May 19, 2010 at 21:06 UTC
SWEET! This is exactly what I needed. So funny, I thought, there has to be a way to do this in perl. My need is to find a corresponding config file relative to where the perl module is installed. Thank You! -Steve	[reply]