[Chicago-talk] is there a perl which?

[Jason Gessner]

you can also just do perldoc -l MODULENAME

i do this all the time:  vim `perldoc -l BLAHBLAH`

-jason

On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:58 AM, tiger peng wrote:

> I stole Andy's idea and add a functoin into my .kshrc.
> function perlch {
>   pm=$1
>   dir=$(echo $pm | sed 's/::/\//g')
>   perl -M$pm -le "print $pm, ' = ' ,\$INC{'$dir.pm'}"
> }
>
> Then I can perlch
> $ perlch DBD::Oracle
> DBD::Oracle =
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux-thread-multi/DBD/ 
> Oracle.pm
>
> Thanks Andy,
>
>
>
> --- Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:25 am, Andy Lester
>> wrote:
>>>> Is there a function in Perl analygous to the
>> Unix 'which', for
>>>> saying where in
>>>> the @INC it will find a package?
>>>
>>> Before it finds it?  Not that I know of.  But
>> after it's loaded, yes,
>>> you look in %INC.
>>>
>>
>> I like your way better.  I forgot about %INC.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jay
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