On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 12:36 +0100, Dermot wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen the following is a book > > > use strict; > use warnings; > use FindBin qw($Bin); > use Path::Class; > use lib dir ($Bin,'..','lib')->stringify; > > > An adopted it into a script of my own. I understand that this FindBin > will allow the code to be ported between OS's. That's isn't massively > important to my current script but i'd like to follow good practise > and stick with it. > > The bit that is confusing me is the use lib statement because I need > to extend @INC and I don't know who to modify that lib statement to > fit my other path in. Where does dir come from and what is this > stringfy method? > > TIA, > Dp >
`dir` is from Path::Class, see `perldoc Path::Class` for details. If you release your code to the public be sure to add your non-standard modules to the REQUIREMENTS section of the code's POD. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Linux is obsolete. -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
