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From: ndjc@hobbit.UUCP (Nick Crossley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: do and relative path names
Summary: should do search libraries for relative paths?
Message-ID: <86592@hobbit.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 90 18:31:32 GMT
Organization: ICL North America, Irvine, CA 92718
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If I use :-
	do './file.pl'
perl still searches the library path if the file is not in the current
directory.  I think perl should handle do and require in the same way as
the shells handle commands; if the name starts with . or /, no path
searching is done.
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