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I've started a module-starter (with --builder=Module::Build). I want to use SQL::Library to collect my SQL into an .ini file... but in order to find the file during run time, I need to know its exact path. How do I get the path of the "data directory" of a module at run time?
Until now, I've been using FindBin (like "$FindBin::Bin/../../path/to/module/datafiles/foo.ini", but I found this is not very robust (For example, it seems to break when there are two programs with the same name in two different dirs in PATH).
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In Perl a true value is any value that is not: null, zero or a zero-length string. A distribution is a collection of files that usually includes a Perl module and several other files.
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This is what File::ShareDir is for. Since you're using Module::Build, you'll need to set the share_dir parameter (and require Module::Build 0.36) in order to have your data files installed along with your module. Then, in your code, you'll use File::ShareDir to calculate the path of foo.ini (e.g. dist_file('My-Dist', 'foo.ini'))
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