I keep running into this. I have a Path::Class object and I want the "last part" of it. So for: 

/my/path/some_dir/
/my/path/some_file.txt
I want to get "some_dir" or "some_file.txt" respectively. If my object is a Path::Class::File object, I can call ->basename. If it's a Path::Class::Dir, I can call ->dir_list(-1). What if I don't want to know/care whether it's a ::File or ::Dir? Sure I can do: 
my $last_part = $p->is_dir ? $p->dir_list(-1) : $p->basename;

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but it seems like there should be something simpler. Or something like that should be available as a method on Path::Class::Entity (the superclass of ::File and ::Dir).

Thanks for any thoughts.

In reply to get the "last part" of a Path::Class object by thepler

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