How can my Perl script find its module in the same directory?

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I am curious why the simplistic solution

use File::Basename;
use lib dirname (__FILE__);
use SomeModuleLocatedInTheSameDirectoryAsThisPerlScriptOrModule;

did not come up. The FindBin module seems to have some issues if the file is not the main executable perl script, but simply a non-executable Perl module. At least that’s how I interpret the comment in the documentation. Did not really test it.

To have any other path relative to the location of this Perl file, do something like

use File::Basename;
use lib dirname (__FILE__) . "/MyModules";

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