[abtimoteo]

how do you turn the path to cgi-bin into a variable? i know that, with access to the shell, you can get the path using the linux command pwd. thereafter, the path can be stored in a scalar variable. what i would like to know is if perl has a built-in variable that contains the path or a function or module that can spit out the same? thanks in advance.

[Chas]

There is really nothing built-in that will give you this. You can use the $0 special variable[1] to get the script name and deduce it from that assuming that you are running the script from the cgi-bin. You can also grab the $ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT} value and tack on a '/cgi-bin'. The problem with that is the cgi-bin is not always under the doc root.

~Charlie

[1] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html#$0