Re: perl require statement

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From: duggan dieterly
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 00:00

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Adam,

Use the @INC array to indicate where files are located.  See "Programming
Perl" page 138.

Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU> wrote:
: 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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