perl require statement

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From: Adam Carheden
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 00:00

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I've build a nice little library of perl routines for use in a web page I'm
designing.  It was all working nicely, adding them using the line 

require '../lib/functions.pl';

because the page generating script was in a sub directory.  Then I added some
stuff to one of the library files (functions.pl) in which IT used a require
statement to include another file in the lib directory.

require 'functions2.pl';

This doesn't work, of course, becuase the actual script run by the webserver 
is in /sitename/page.pl.  When run from the command line, functions.pl works
fine becuase it's in the same directory as functions2.pl.  When called by 
the page.pl, perl looks for /sitename/functions2.pl and, of course, doesn't
find it.  Is there any way I can require functions2.pl in functions.pl without
passing the location of page.pl to functions.pl as an argument?

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Date: 2000/04/03
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