[Chicago-talk] is there a perl which?

[Jason Gessner]

yeah, that is cool.  I don't recall where i learned about that, but  
it is really handy.

-jason

On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:39 AM, tiger peng wrote:

> That's simple! I have never tried the "-l"
>
> --- Jason Gessner <jason at multiply.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Chicago-talk mailing list
>>>> Chicago-talk at pm.org
>>>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Chicago-talk mailing list
>>> Chicago-talk at pm.org
>>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chicago-talk mailing list
>> Chicago-talk at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago-talk mailing list
> Chicago-talk at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk