Re: Re: use File::Basename - need to specify OS?

This depends on the originating OS of the given $path_and_file. If I remember correctly, then the path given through a CGI file upload may be in MSDOS format (with backslashes). Processing this filename with basename or splitpath on a Unix system would give wrong results.

So if you know the path is a MSDOS path, you should use File::Spec::Win32->splitpath instead of File::Spec->splitpath. See here:

use File::Spec;
warn ((File::Spec->splitpath("c:\\foo\\bar\\basename"))[-1]);
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would return c:\foo\bar\basename at ... on a Unix system, while

use File::Spec::Win32;
warn ((File::Spec::Win32->splitpath("c:\\foo\\bar\\basename"))[-1]);
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would return basename at ... on all systems.

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Re^3: use File::Basename - need to specify OS? by pelagic (Priest) on Apr 21, 2004 at 11:18 UTC
You're completely right when the path originated not from the actual os. In that case I'd probably do it a bit primitive like that: `($progname = "c:\\foo\\bar\\basename") =~ s!^.*[\\/]!!; warn $progname;` [download] pelagic	[reply] [d/l]