how to call pm files from index file in perl?

Question

I want to use files that are inside cgi-bin folder in perl, I want to call them from index.cgi When I do this: use cgi-bin/file_name it doesn't work, how can I do that?

Answer 1

You could try "do"

# read in config files: system first, then user
for $file ("/share/prog/defaults.rc", "$ENV{HOME}/.someprogrc")
{
   unless ($return = do $file) {
     warn "couldn't parse $file: $@" if $@;
     warn "couldn't do $file: $!"    unless defined $return;
     warn "couldn't run $file"       unless $return;
   }
}

This is from perldoc example.

Answer 2

When you ask Perl to use a module, it searches the directories in @INC. If a module you want to use is located in some other directory, you can do this:

use lib 'some/other/directory';
use TheModule;

If you don't want the directory to be added to @INC, you can implement use directly like this:

BEGIN {
    require 'some/other/directory/TheModule.pm';
    TheModule->import('foo', 'bar', ...);
}

More details on use, use lib and @INC.