>>>>> "GL" == Greg London <[email protected]> writes:
GL> First, I have a perl script that needs to pass in via command
GL> options a filename that might include wildcards. This filename
GL> will be used by the script at a later point, from a different
GL> directory, so I don't want Unix to do wildcard replacement when I
GL> run the script. But I'd like it to look like a wildcard so people
GL> are familiar with it and don't need to be explained about it.
GL> I used '@' as my wildcard and then do a s/@/*/g at some point
GL> before using it. It feels a bit klugey though. Is there a better
GL> way to do it?
why not pass in normal shell patterns but put them in quotes on the
command line? then use glob() to expand them inside perl
GL> Second, is there a built-in way to find the path to a perl module?
GL> I wrote a subroutine that does a manual search through @INC,
GL> PERL5LIB, PERLLIB, etc, but, again, it feels kind of klugey, and,
GL> again, I can't imagine I'm the first guy to need to do this. Is
GL> there a built in way?
if you have to load it anyway, use require which happens at
runtime. then you can look inside %INC to find the path for that
module. note that if you want a bareword module load you need to do it
like this:
eval "require $module"
if you have the filename with the .pm suffix and normal path separators
(/), then you can just do this:
require $file ;
uri
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