in reply to Simple Regex needed

Don't use a regex. Be portable. Use File::Basename: 
use File::Basename;
my $file = basename($full_path);

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Re: •Re: Simple Regex needed
by paulbort (Hermit) on May 09, 2003 at 15:55 UTC
    Just for completeness, the way I've been doing it (because I didn't know about File::Basename either) is this: 
     
my ( $basename ) = reverse split /\//, "/tmp/app/foo";

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    Now I'm going to go back and change my code to use File::Basename. Thanks, merlyn!

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      > my ( $basename ) = reverse split /\//, "/tmp/app/foo";

      The only problem with this is that it's not portable: it'll work on Unix, but probably not on MS Windows.
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