Perl include question

[Paul Lussier]

Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> writes:

> Piece of cake. You need to use the FindBin module that is included in
> the default Perl distribution. Do this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use FindBin qw($Bin);
> use lib "$Bin";
> use myinclude;
>
> This assumes that your module is named myinclude.pm and is in the same
> directory as your perl script.

I was just about to make this same recommendation.  We've got hundreds
of thousands of lines of perl code here at work, and this is where I
first discovered the FindBin module.  We use it extensively here, and
probably wouldn't be able to do things nearly as easily without it.

Almost every script we write has:

   use FindBin;
   use lib "/build/perl/lastrun/lib";
   use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../../perl/lib";
   use lib $FindBin::Bin;

It's really nice to not have to worry about your modules not being found :)

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Seeya,
Paul