Re^2: I humbly ask for your help with parsing

The main benefit of matured modules is they handle corner cases you might have overlooked. Your code would, I agree, work most of the time, but if you get an odd directory name with a slash in it, she fails:

$_ = '/usr/local/www/"something/other"/"This file/data thing.cfg"';
print "$1\n" if /.+\/(\w+)\//;

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Re^3: I humbly ask for your help with parsing by Lennotoecom (Pilgrim) on Oct 31, 2013 at 00:33 UTC
I agree, it's just, if the author's task is to thrash through some ordinary-named directories maybe he doesn't need all this module-stuff.	[reply]
Re^4: I humbly ask for your help with parsing by marinersk (Priest) on Oct 31, 2013 at 12:30 UTC
Excellent point. So long as the OP also understands the potential risks, an informed decision can be made. I personally tend to over-engineer everything; I am convinced that I am the butt of the old joke about "sometimes you have to fire the engineer and ship the product". Sometimes the quick solution is sufficiently effective and, I begrudgingly admit, the better choice in far more circumstances than my instincts would have me believe.	[reply]
Re^5: I humbly ask for your help with parsing by Lennotoecom (Pilgrim) on Oct 31, 2013 at 12:50 UTC
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Re^6: I humbly ask for your help with parsing by marinersk (Priest) on Oct 31, 2013 at 19:30 UTC
Re^7: I humbly ask for your help with parsing by parv (Parson) on Nov 01, 2013 at 06:30 UTC