in reply to Uploading Time

Well, you could try spliting on / and \ and take the last element. It could look like this 
my $path = 'c:\\path\\file'; # The path and file name
my $filename = (split (/[\/\\]/, $path))[-1]; # Split on / and \, and 
+then get the last element

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Re: Re: Uploading Time
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 13, 2002 at 23:12 UTC
    ok what does \/\\ mean, does mean \ or /, and does -1 mean the last element, what if it was 1.
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      /[\/\\]/ is a regex that matches on either '/' or '\'. The first and last '/' starts and ends the regex. The '[' and ']' means match any character between them, instead of a series of charaters. The '\/' mataches '/' and '\\' matches '\', both of them are escaped.

      Split takes the regex and any time it matches, it seperates the string. It then returns a list of values, and the -1 gives you the last item on the list. If you used 1, then you would get the second item on the list (0 is the first element).

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