I have been doing perl for quite some time now, and have been able to write some pretty advanced regular expressions, but now a relatively simple(I hope) problem has me stumped. Many times while running testcases we diff gold file with the results file generated. Now the result file generated(and the gold file) The files have lines which contain 
file /user/name/some/path/to/filename@@ dumped: replaced /user/name/bl
+ah/blah/filename
Sometimes we have this
@@@@user/some/file/filename.sdc: dumped

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Now obviously this will fail whenever the run path changes. So I was trying this s:/.*/\(\w\+\)/\1/g equivalent and kinds etc., but if you have 2 paths dumped on the same line, it will eat up text in between that too because of greedy nature. What I really want is a bullet proof regexp which will change every instance of /home/user/blah/blah...../filename to filename This seems so simple yet so difficult because sometimes the filename is followed by whitespace, sometimes by @ sometimes by : or sometimes by any other special character(but never a word of a number)

In reply to This regular expression has me stumped by tsk1979

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