1Dir::Self(3)          User Contributed Perl Documentation         Dir::Self(3)
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NAME

6       Dir::Self - a __DIR__ constant for the directory your source file is in
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SYNOPSIS

9         use Dir::Self;
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11         use lib __DIR__ . "/lib";
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13         my $conffile = __DIR__ . "/config";
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DESCRIPTION

16       Perl has two pseudo-constants describing the current location in your
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21       This is useful if your code wants to access files in the same
22       directory, like helper modules or configuration data. This is a bit
23       like FindBin except it's not limited to the main program, i.e. you can
24       also use it in modules. And it actually works.
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26       As of version 0.10 each use of "__DIR__" recomputes the directory name;
27       this ensures that files in different directories that share the same
28       package name get correct results. If you don't want this, "use
29       Dir::Self qw(:static)" will create a true "__DIR__" constant in your
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AUTHOR

33       Lukas Mai <l.mai @web.de>
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36       Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 by Lukas Mai
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38       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
39       under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at
40       your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
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