Re: strip substring from long string

$a='/usr/local/prj/code/prog/prog1';

($path)=$a=~m#.+/(.+?)$#;

print $path;
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Re^2: strip substring from long string by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Mar 03, 2005 at 12:15 UTC
The leading dot-plus is unnecessary. In fact, you can just get all the non-slash characters leading up to the end of string: `($basename) = $a =~ m#([^/]+)$#;` [download] Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]