Brothers I have sinned - but I know not how!

I am trying to use File::Basename to get the file name from a path passed into the program via $ARGV1. 

        $org_fn = $ARGV[1];
    ($file,$dir,$bak) = fileparse("/tmp/file.bak",
                        qr/~+$/, qr/\.(bak|orig|save)/)
    print "$file \n";

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The output comes out as either 'path/path/path/file.ext' or '$ARGV' (when I used single quotes, which I see is wrong now). While I dug the regex out of O'reilly's Perl Cookbook, I now think I am asking fileparse() to do something with $ARGV that is either impossible or even sinful. Is this correct? How can get the filename I want?

Thank you,

-mox

In reply to Using File::Basename and $ARGV[] by chinamox

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