Re: Re: Getting the filename from full path name ?

This is not a real solution - it is not portable. Please use File::Basename. Having said that...

my $a = "foo/bar/baz";
my ($file) = $a =~ /\/(.*?)$/;
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Update: Thank you Chris, the code should be:

my ($file) = $a =~ m|/([^/]+)$|;
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Re: Re: Re: Getting the filename from full path name ? by tachyon (Chancellor) on Apr 15, 2004 at 05:14 UTC
Actually something like `my ($file) = $path =~ m\|([^/\\]+)$\|` will work on Win32 or *nix and will also not fail to find the filname of 'file.txt' cheers tachyon	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Getting the filename from full path name ? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 15, 2004 at 05:01 UTC
I believe you mean `my ($file) = $a =~ m\|/([^/]+)$\|;` [download] Your exp matches starting with the first slash Chris	[reply] [d/l]