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Joe Green <> wrote:
>I will put my template file in the same directory that my perl program was loaded from. Is there a reasonable way to determine this directory?

See the second and following parts of "perldoc -q directory":
"How do I add the directory my program lives in"

>Then internally I will (if I get a little help) access "fullPath...template.txt". Until I find out how to do this that line from my patch file will read like . . .
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>Perl "fullPath...xlate.pl" "fullPath...translate.txt" user.asm >temp.asm

If you don't call the perl interpreter explicitely but just use
"fullPath...xlate.pl ..." then you should find the full path in $0.
Extracting the directory from $0 is trivial using functions from
File::Basename

>I would prefer to not use path environment settings.

Well, $ENV{PATH} does play a major role in deciding which executables to
use, so you cannot just ignore it.

jue