Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] Determining a full path to the currentfolder

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 2:42 +0930 1999.09.12, Henry Penninkilampi wrote:
>I want to determine the full path to the folder in which a MacPerl
>application resides, and has just been launched.

$ENV{MACPERL} gives exactly that.

>use Mac::Processes;
>
>$processID = GetCurrentProcess();
>$appPath = $Process{$processID}->processAppSpec();
>$appNameLength = length $Process{$processID}->processName();
>$folderPath = substr($appPath,0,(-1 * $appNameLength));

If you were going to do this, I'd think a better way would be:

  use File::Basename;
  $folderPath = dirname($appPath);

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