[H-GEN] How do I specify a path in a Perl program

[Jason Henry Parker]

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s4565 at lycos.co.uk writes:

> I am trying to run a perl program which has in it
> 
> use HTML::Entities ();
> 
> only when I go to run the perl program I get
> 
> [tony at ringo FetchYahoo]$ ./fetchyahoo.pl --help
> Can't locate HTML/Entities.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at ./fetchyahoo.pl line 40.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./fetchyahoo.pl line 40.

The answer is right in front of you.  The error message from Perl is
reporting the contents of the @INC array, which is a list of
directories searched for modules imported with the C<use> statement
(among others).

There are quite a few ways to change @INC, the most notable being the
perl -I option (see perldoc perlrun) or the C<lib> pragma (see
perldoc lib).

> I have HTML/Entities.pm on my system
> [root at ringo rpms]# ls -l
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/HTML/Entities.pm -r--r--r--    1 root     root        11359 Nov  6  2001 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/HTML/Entities.pm

In your case you should add the
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux directory to @INC, I
believe.  Something like this

        use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux';

before the C<use> statement that imports HTML::Entities should do the
trick.
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