[tpm] Detect a module's directory

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Madi!

On Monday 22 Feb 2010 21:28:01 Digimer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    Possibly stupid question time...
> 
>    Is there a reliable* way to detect or read the directory that a perl
> module is in? '$ENV{PWD}' returns the directory of the script loading
> the module, not of the module itself. My Google-fu is failing me as
> finding a solution, too.
> 

Yes, there is: see %INC in http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html :

{{{
%INC

The hash %INC contains entries for each filename included via the do, require, 
or use operators. The key is the filename you specified (with module names 
converted to pathnames), and the value is the location of the file found. The 
require operator uses this hash to determine whether a particular file has 
already been included.

If the file was loaded via a hook (e.g. a subroutine reference, see require 
for a description of these hooks), this hook is by default inserted into %INC 
in place of a filename. Note, however, that the hook may have set the %INC 
entry by itself to provide some more specific info.
}}}

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

P.S: can someone get rid of the toronto-pm at pm.org / tpm at to.pm.org duality? 
Reply all on KMail keeps wanting to post it twice.

>    The reason I need this is that my core module reads in a
> configuration file from the root of the module's directory. I could
> hard-code it, but I would rather it be flexible in case it gets moved
> down the road.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Madi

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