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can the script find itself? fossildoc 04-06-2008
Posted by fossildoc on April 6, 2008, 11:53 am
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 I'm running build 813 on 'doze XP/Home. I want my Perl script to
determine the directory from which it was run. This is equivalent to
retrieving the command line. For example, from a DOS window I type:
>\perl\bin\perl c:\mydir\myscript.pl
I want the script to be able to retrieve the string "c:\mydir".

There is a Win32 function, Find, that can look for files, but it only
searches the INC directories, so it is not reliable.

Any ideas, please.

Posted by Frank Seitz on April 6, 2008, 11:55 am
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 fossildoc wrote:
> I'm running build 813 on 'doze XP/Home. I want my Perl script to
> determine the directory from which it was run. This is equivalent to
> retrieving the command line. For example, from a DOS window I type:
>
>>\perl\bin\perl c:\mydir\myscript.pl
>
> I want the script to be able to retrieve the string "c:\mydir".
>
> There is a Win32 function, Find, that can look for files, but it only
> searches the INC directories, so it is not reliable.
>
> Any ideas, please.

perldoc FindBin

Frank
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Posted by fossildoc on April 6, 2008, 12:24 pm
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> perldoc FindBin
>
> Frank
> --

Thanks, Frank. It works fine.


Posted by Petr Vileta on April 7, 2008, 10:27 pm
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fossildoc wrote:
> I'm running build 813 on 'doze XP/Home. I want my Perl script to
> determine the directory from which it was run. This is equivalent to
> retrieving the command line. For example, from a DOS window I type:
>> \perl\bin\perl c:\mydir\myscript.pl
> I want the script to be able to retrieve the string "c:\mydir".
>
> There is a Win32 function, Find, that can look for files, but it only
> searches the INC directories, so it is not reliable.
>
> Any ideas, please.

$0 can't to help you?


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