in reply to Current Directory in Windows

The "current directory" is not really defined when you start a program via double-clicking. Maybe you want to look at what File::HomeDir or $ENV{USERPROFILE} give you?

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Re^2: Current Directory in Windows
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 09, 2012 at 14:56 UTC

    The "current directory" is not really defined when you start a program via double-clicking.

    Actually it always appears to be %userprofile%

    so says http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe

    The OP seems confused by about what cwd means, seems OP wants the directory where .exe is located, meaning 

    BEGIN { 
    use File::Spec;
    use File::Basename qw' dirname ';
    our $thisf = File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__);
    $thisf ||= File::Spec->rel2abs( $0 );
    our $thisd = dirname($thisf);
}

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      bah 
      #!/usr/bin/perl --
BEGIN {
    use File::Spec;
    use File::Basename();
    our $thisf = File::Spec->rel2abs( $0 );
    our $thisd = File::Basename::dirname($thisf);
}

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