You are splitting on a whitespace so it only splits it once (because you only have two variables to throw it in) and throws the rest out. What you want is: 
my $pubupload = q"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\chin
+a.txt";
$pubupload =~ /(?:.*)\\(.*?\..*)$/;
print $1;

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When ran, the code gives this output: 
china.txt

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And of course to fine the extension, you can split it up from there. 

($junk, $extension)=split/\./,$1;/;

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NOTE: I couldn't get split/\./,$pubupload; to work on the whole string, any ideas why?

Tiptoeing up to a Perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian

In reply to Re: using split on a string by damian1301
in thread using split on a string by newatperl

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