in reply to Probably silly regex question / not so silly regex question

As I look at all 10 or so posts above this one, I am staggered to see that noone has mentioned File::Basename as an architecture independant way to get either the basename or extension or path of any filename: 
use File::Basename
$basename = basename($filename);

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Should work... but there is no Perl interpreter in a window for me here at Perl Monks (hint).

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RE: Re: Probably silly regex question / not so silly regex question
by barndoor (Pilgrim) on Aug 02, 2000 at 15:07 UTC
    I was just going to write that... I use File::Basename all the time for filename splitting. Hasn't failed me yet and heres how you do your bit. 
    use strict;
use File::Basename;

my $file = '/ftp/dest/id.ext';

my ($name, $path, $suffix);

my @suffixes = ('.ext'); # Extra extensions can be added to the list.

($name, $path, $suffix) = fileparse($file, @suffixes);

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    Coffee, KitKat, and a new script to write. It's gonna be a good day....
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[d/l]

      Ah, beutiful. I saw File::Spec (and use it), but I missed File::Basename.

      Thanks,
James Mastros,
Just Another Perl Initate
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