there's the unix utility called basename,

And? Theres no such thing in Win32 nor a bunch of the other OS'es that Perl supports.

Im sorry to be a bit snarky, but jusitfying a feature in perl by its existance in UNIX isnt actually a very helpful argument, Perl isnt UNIX and UNIX users arent even a majority in the community anymore.

And IMO I fail to see how: 

 my ($vol,$path,$filename)=splitpath($spec);

[download]

is any less clear than using basename. And considering that a pathname often follows a basename id say its all the better because you get it all in one sub call. Anyway, if you feel better about having a basename sub then go right ahead, but I cant see people in p5p or Ken Williams agreeing. Hell, he even argued (and as maintainer won) that File::Spec shouldnt have a way to split arbitrary path strings properly, only one to split $ENV{PATH} itself. Which I personally thought was a pretty bad call. But whatever. :-)


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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Getting the filename from full path name ? by demerphq
in thread Getting the filename from full path name ? by peterr

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