@INC

@INC

The array @INC contains the list of places that the do EXPR , require, or use constructs look for their library files. It initially consists of the arguments to any -I command-line switches, followed by the default Perl library, probably /usr/local/lib/perl, followed by ".", to represent the current directory. ("." will not be appended if taint checks are enabled, either by -T or by -t .) If you need to modify this at runtime, you should use the use lib pragma to get the machine-dependent library properly loaded also:

use lib '/mypath/libdir/';
use SomeMod;

You can also insert hooks into the file inclusion system by putting Perl code directly into @INC . Those hooks may be subroutine references, array references or blessed objects. See require for details.