(tye)Re: Cutting of Path

If you want to match a literal string in a regex, then you really need to use \Q and \E: $files[$i] =~ m#^\Q$conf{rootdir}\E/(.*)$#;

That code can still fail on quite a few platforms (including the one used by the author of the original question).

You would probably be better off to use File::Spec for this kind of stuff (though it requires Perl 5.6, unfortunately).

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re: (tye)Re: Cutting of Path by buckaduck (Chaplain) on Mar 21, 2001 at 04:10 UTC
How about this low-tech solution? Since the rootdir is at the start of the string... `substr($files[$i], 0, length($conf{rootdir})+1) = '';` [download] buckaduck UPDATE: I added 1 to the length to deal with the extra forward slash character...	[reply] [d/l]