Hi monks,

I discovered "use File::Basename" through the responses I got from a node of mine use CGI vs use CGI qw(:standard). I've the following code which works on a Windows machine running apache 2++: 

use CGI;
use File::Basename;

my $q = new CGI;

# $file set to 'C:\Windows\images\hello.gif'
my $file = $q->param('file');

# $filename set to hello.gif
my $filename = basename($file);

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That works. The same piece of code when run on a BSD server "broke" - I needed to add an extra line to get it to work. So the code above was changed to: 
use CGI;
use File::Basename;

my $q = new CGI;

# $file set to 'C:\Windows\images\hello.gif'
my $file = $q->param('file');

# Added this line
fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS");

# $filename set to hello.gif
my $filename = basename($file);

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I'm curious why I needed to add the line "fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS"). I had the impression the function "basename" would automatically detect the type of OS the file comes from and perform the necessary parsing, so you need not worry about the source of the file.

Could someone enlighten me? Thanks :)

Update:

Change the slashes to '\' instead of '/', as pointed out by b10m.

Update2:

On use CGI vs use CGI qw(:standard), The code by jeffa had a line to detect OS: 

fileparse_set_fstype('MSDOS') if $name =~ /\\/;

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Which shows that OS detection isn't automatic.

In reply to use File::Basename - need to specify OS? by kiat

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