dirname($_).'/'.basename($_) should yield the original value of $_, right? (This is under Solaris, or Linux, before comments are made about the direction of the slash).

Well, as I found whilst working on some web stuff, if $_ is a directory, and ends in a /, it doesn't.

perl -MFile::Basename -e 'foreach (@ARGV) { print "$_: ", dirname ($_)
+, " : ", basename($_), "\n"}' /home/oed /home/oed/. /home/oed/
/home/oed: /home : oed
/home/oed/.: /home/oed : .
/home/oed/: /home :

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So either it's a bug, or I've missed something in the documentation, and am being blatently dumb. Please tell me it's the latter ;-)

--
Tommy
Too stupid to live.
Too stubborn to die.

In reply to Bug? in File::Basename by tommyw

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