two librarys

[dbacdog]

OE : 11.7.6
OS hp-ux 11.31

Just checking, i can run two libraries in the PROPATH, and it will run the programs in the first LIB, if programs are not there it will run LIB2???
ex:
propath=/dir/lib/lib1.pl:/dir/lib/lib2.pl


Thanks,

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

You shouldn't think of it as running libraries. The propath is a search list. So, although it's a simplification, in this context think of a procedure library as being like a directory.

If your propath looks like this:

dirA
dirB
dirC

and all of those directories contain a file foo.r, the code run foo.p will run dirA\foo.r, the first instance of a matching procedure in the propath.

The same will be true for procedure libraries. You can have multiple procedure libraries in your propath and they will be searched when running a procedure. The first location in the propath (directory or .pl) in which the procedure is found is the version that will be run.