Re^2: File::Basename and File::MMagic for File Downloads from Website

I am not getting the same results. On my Debian machine, I get the following output using some of the examples.

> perl -MFile::Basename -le "print basename 'foo/bar'"
bar
> perl -MFile::Basename -le "print basename 'Z:\my_files\docs\some_kin
+d_of_manual.pdf'"
Z:\my_files\docs\some_kind_of_manual.pdf
> perl -MFile::Basename -le "print basename '/home/someguy/file.txt'"
file.txt
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Re^3: File::Basename and File::MMagic for File Downloads from Website by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 21, 2008 at 02:05 UTC
Sorry, it had been a while. It does behave in a system-specific fashion. Technically, what you ask is impossible. `'foo\bar'` should return `'foo\bar'` if a unix path and `'bar'` if a Windows path, but you don't know what kind of path your client built. That means you might as well roll out code that does what you want it to do. `my $basename = ( split /[:\/\\]/, $_ )[-1];` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]