Hello, I know this subject has been covered,but I don't seem to get it. I have got a cgi script that uploads a file. I am using File::Basename to split the path to extract just the file name and extension. it works fine with Unix path separators, but I can not get it to work when dealing with a windows path. It strips out the path separators, but doesn't give the filename.
If I upload a file called C:\Documents and Settings\Ryan\My Documents\sample.txt it gives me the full path minus the path separators.
use File::Basename;

my ($name, $path, $suffix);
my $filename_with_path_unix = "/usr/local/sample.txt";

print "path is ";
print $filename_with_path_unix."\n" ;

# test 1, unix
print "TEST #1\n";
( $name, $path, $suffix ) = fileparse( $filename_with_path_unix, "\.[^
+.]*" );

print $name."\n";
print $path."\n";
print $suffix."\n";

print "File is ". $name.$suffix."\n";

#test 2, dos
print "TEST #2\n";
my $filename_with_path_dos = "C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\s
+ample.txt";
print "path is ".$filename_with_path_dos."\n";

( $name, $path, $suffix ) = fileparse( $filename_with_path_dos, "/.[^.
+]*" );

print $name."\n";
print $path."\n";
print $suffix."\n";

print "File is ". $name.$suffix."\n";

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The output for Unix is sample.txt.
The output for windows is C:Documents and SettingsMy Documentssample.txt.
Thank you for any help.

In reply to Parsing a filename by rooneyl

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