I can't get your code to run, and I don't think it's because I'm on a Windows system (but I could be wrong): 

C:\Steve\Dev\PerlMonks\P-2013-10-30@1354-BaseDir>basedir.pl
Global symbol "$lastdirectoryname" requires explicit package name at 
  C:\Steve\Dev\PerlMonks\P-2013-10-30@1354-BaseDir\basedir.pl line 22.
Execution of C:\Steve\Dev\PerlMonks\P-2013-10-30@1354-BaseDir\basedir.
+pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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Are you trying to extract the last directory name out of a full pathname? Example:

my $pathName = "/usr/tmp/booger/test.dat";
my $baseName = ExtractLastDir($pathName);
print "Result is $baseName\n";

And you would expect:

Result is booger

Is that your goal?

In reply to Re: I humbly ask for your help with parsing by marinersk
in thread I humbly ask for your help with parsing by WxResearcher

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