Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!alchemy!piet
From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Including home-rolled libraries
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.130152.25669@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 28 Feb 91 13:01:52 GMT
References: <16935@venera.isi.edu>
Sender: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-Reply-To: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)

>>>>> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (JS) writes:

JS> The problem is, when I say;

JS> require "~/.perlLib/random.pl";

JS> I get the error:

JS> Can't locate ~/.perlLib/random.pl in @INC at roll line 3.

The problem is that ~/... is not a proper filename (unless in your current
directory you have a directory named '~'.

The expansion of ~ to your home directory is a function of the shell (and
not all shells do this).

So try to let the shell do the expansion:

require <~/.perlLib/random.pl>;
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