Finding the path of the current library/file

suaveant has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to know how to find out the path of the current file, be it a script or a library. I know the info is there somewhere, because caller() returns the file a subroutine was called from. Is there a way to access this directly?

- Ant
- Some of my best work - (1 2 3)

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Re: Finding the path of the current library/file by ysth (Canon) on Aug 04, 2004 at 18:41 UTC
See __FILE__ in perldoc perldata	[reply]
Re^2: Finding the path of the current library/file by suaveant (Parson) on Aug 04, 2004 at 19:07 UTC
OOOH yeah.. I have seen that before! Duh. Thanks. - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply]
Re: Finding the path of the current library/file by Eimi Metamorphoumai (Deacon) on Aug 04, 2004 at 18:48 UTC
`use File::Spec; print File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Finding the path of the current library/file by EdwardG (Vicar) on Aug 04, 2004 at 18:50 UTC
`__FILE__` gives you the current filename, eg "cwd.pl". To get the current working directory use Cwd `use Cwd; $dir = getcwd;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]