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

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Thanks for the reply Jason.

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:34:08PM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> 
> 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).

I thought it was, however my perl knowledge is somewhat lacking.

> 
> 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.

It certainly did the trick.  Now onto the next problem!

Cheers

Tony



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