Have a look at File::Basename (in the standard distribution) before hacking away with regexs, problably it does something you want.

Hope this helps, -gjb-

Do literate Programming: the solution is a function of the problem. Know the problem, know the solution.

m{(?x) # i want to match

   [A-Z] # windos drive letter
    :    #colon

    (?:  #cluster
       \\     # backslash
       [^\\]+ # directory- or filename
    )+   #one or more
}#end of pattern
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thanks but this still doesn't pass the correct filename test on my cgi ;-(

thanks but this still doesn't pass the correct filename test on my cgi ;-(
Are you sure you don't have / instead of \?

Copious use of debugging prints/warns would help identify whethre you have the match strng you expect and the rege you want

Dingus

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