Hi everyone !!

Here is an easy one for you !

I have a path to a file like this : "D:\My Documents\Document.txt" and I want to get only the part with "D:\My Documents". Right now I am doing this, but it does not seem quite efficient:
my $path = "D:/a directory/another directory/.../a file";
my @tmp = split(/\//, $path);
my $last = @tmp - 1;

$path =~ /\/$tmp[$last]/;
my $dir = $PREMATCH;
my $fileName = $tmp[$last];

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It works but I feel I could use a regex for it instead of a split, or maybe something else than using a match.
So, the question is: is there a way to match only the last occurence of a character (like "/") in a string or any better way to get the directory of the file path?

All ideas are welcomed !

In reply to match only last character of a kind by duc

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