Re: How do I create folders by trimming the text

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Re^2: How do I create folders by trimming the text by kennethk (Abbot) on Nov 09, 2010 at 16:11 UTC
I would add File::Spec (particularly splitpath) if you need to parse out information about paths, e.g. splitting the directory path from the file name.	[reply]
Re^3: How do I create folders by trimming the text by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2010 at 14:43 UTC
Tried: ($directory1,$directory2,$filename)=splitpath( $file ); print "directory1=\'".$directory1."\'directory2=\'".$directory2."\'filename=\'".$filename."\'\n"; Got: directory1=''directory2='.\folder1\folder11\'filename='elementA.xml' I am looking to get: directory1='folder1'directory2='folder11'filename='elementA.xml' Appreciates your help.	[reply]
Re^4: How do I create folders by trimming the text by kennethk (Abbot) on Nov 10, 2010 at 18:04 UTC
Did you bother to read the documentation? From File::Spec: splitpath Splits a path in to volume, directory, and filename portions. On systems with no concept of volume, returns '' for volume. ... splitdir The opposite of catdir(). @dirs = File::Spec->splitdir( $directories ); As well, please read How do I post a question effectively?. When you post code, input and output, wrap it in `<code>` tags so that formatting and whitespace is maintained. Consider the following script: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use File::Spec::Functions qw(splitpath splitdir); my @files = qw( .\folder1\folder11\elementA.xml .\folder1\folder11\elementB.xml .\folder2\folder22\element1.xml .\folder2\folder22\folder222\element11.xml ); for my $file (@files) { my ($volume, $directory, $filename) = splitpath($file); print <<EOT; Input: $file Volume: $volume Directory: $directory Filename: $filename splitdir gives: EOT for my $dir ( splitdir $directory) { print "$dir\n"; } print "\n"; } [download] outputs: Input: .\folder1\folder11\elementA.xml Volume: Directory: .\folder1\folder11\ Filename: elementA.xml splitdir gives: . folder1 folder11 Input: .\folder1\folder11\elementB.xml Volume: Directory: .\folder1\folder11\ Filename: elementB.xml splitdir gives: . folder1 folder11 Input: .\folder2\folder22\element1.xml Volume: Directory: .\folder2\folder22\ Filename: element1.xml splitdir gives: . folder2 folder22 Input: .\folder2\folder22\folder222\element11.xml Volume: Directory: .\folder2\folder22\folder222\ Filename: element11.xml splitdir gives: . folder2 folder22 folder222 [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: How do I create folders by trimming the text by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2010 at 18:56 UTC
Re^3: How do I create folders by trimming the text by Anonymous Monk on Nov 09, 2010 at 16:29 UTC
I just tried, excellent command for parsing out the path from the element. However I want to do the opposite. I would like to create the folder structure from the path and then copy the elements into it (that I can do with my existing code). I just need help in splitting the folders and creating them from the path. Thanks.	[reply]
Re^4: How do I create folders by trimming the text by kennethk (Abbot) on Nov 09, 2010 at 16:56 UTC
I just need help in splitting the folders and creating them from the path Did you read Corion's linked documentation? File::Spec's `splitpath` and `splitdir` extract the folder names. File::Path's `make_path` creates folders from a path.	[reply] [d/l] [select]