in reply to Paths in Perl

'course, there's a different issue if you're writing a CGI script which accepts a file upload.

Assuming you want to extract the filename from the pathname, I've been known to use something along the lines of this: 

my ($filename) = ($pathname =~ m|[/\\:]([^/\\:]+)$|);

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but if anyone has a better solution then I'd be interested to hear it.

andy.

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Re: CGI Re: Paths in Perl
by rob_au (Abbot) on Nov 16, 2002 at 01:36 UTC
    In the CGI::Upload module, the following code was used to parse the full pathname of the uploaded file - This code makes use of HTTP::BrowserDetect to detect the client operating system from the sent HTTP headers and set the parse behaviour of File::Basename accordingly.

    The pertinent code in question ...

    use CGI;
use File::Basename;
use HTTP::BrowserDetect;


sub _handle_file {
    my ($self, $param) = @_;
    my $cgi = $self->query;

    #   Determine and set the appropriate file system parsing routines
+ for the
    #   uploaded path name based upon the HTTP client header informati
+on.

    fileparse_set_fstype(
        sub {
            my $browser = HTTP::BrowserDetect->new;
            return 'MSWin32' if $browser->windows;
            return 'MacOS' if $browser->mac;
            $^O;
        }
    );
    my @file = fileparse( $cgi->param($param), '\.[^\.]*' );

    #   Return an undefined value if the file name cannot be parsed fr
+om the
    #   file field form parameter.

    return undef unless $file[0];

    .
    .
    .

}

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    perl -e 'print+unpack("N",pack("B32","00000000000000000000000111100010")),"\n"'

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