hello Monks,

I seek your advise on the following situtation.

I need to extract filename and the dir path in which this filename is located. This has to be done from the root-level of a particular dir.

In the script that am writing, I followed this regex to extract the dirname and filename.

$abspath =~ /\/\w+(.txt|.doc|.pdf|.vsd|.xls|.xlt|.dot|.pot|.ppt|.mpp)$/;

with thie regex, the following are matched :

Framework/Templates_Doc.Conventions/CSSP_TPL_Process_Procedure_Description.xls

Framework/Templates_Doc.Conventions, , /CSSP_TPL_Training_Material.pot

but the following are not matched.

Framework/Templates_Doc.Conventions/CSSP_TPL_Excel_Meta-Template.xlt

Engineering/SBI/PD_PRC/Overall_SWReleaseFlow_v0.1.vsd

Could you pls. share your wisdom on how to solve this regex ?

thanks in advance,

Mars

2005-11-10 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'regular expression on filenames with aboslute path'

In reply to regular expression on filenames with absolute path by ramthen

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