The trouble you seem to be having is because you haven't read the fileparse_set_fstype portion of the File::Basename docs. Anyway, I know its been a year since you wrote this, but I finally wrote fileparse (just for completeness) and thought I'd share. 
sub File::Spec::dirname {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->catpath( ( $self->splitpath(shift) )[ 0, 1 ] );
}

sub File::Spec::basename {
    my $self = shift;
    my $name = shift;
    return ($self->fileparse($name, map("\Q$_\E",@_)))[0];
}

sub File::Spec::fileparse {
    my $self = shift;
    my( $suffix, $path, $name ) = $self->splitpath(shift);
    $path = $self->catpath( $suffix, $path, '' );

    for my $s(@_){
        $self =~ s/($s)$//i and last;
    }

    $suffix = $1 ? $1 : undef;
    wantarray ? ( $name, $path, $suffix ) : $name;
}

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Check out file.spec.basename.txt to test the above with the File::Basename test suite.

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