Re: Why can't I use s///

Will it work if you just grab the last characters that are not a slash?

# something like
my $text="../files/jack/2012/derpone.pdf";
$text=~ s|.*/([^/]*$)|$1|g;
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Cheers,
R.

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Re^2: Why can't I use s/// by educated_foo (Vicar) on May 08, 2013 at 19:47 UTC
Even simpler: `s!.*/!!;` [download] Just another Perler interested in Algol Programming.	[reply] [d/l]