in reply to how to Check file type?

Another way to grab the extension is to put the split name in an array and pop the last element. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $filename = "this.is.my.filename.txt";
my @bits = split /\./, $filename;
print pop @bits;

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Re^2: how to Check file type?
by TomDLux (Vicar) on Dec 02, 2010 at 19:44 UTC

    Saving the whole array and then popping off the last element uses up lines and adds variables. I'd rather wrap the split in parentheses and reference the last element.

    my $suffix = ( split /\./, $filename )[-1];

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    The only danger is that if the only reason you're getting the suffix is to print it, you need more parentheses to prevent print from thinking a subset of the expression is its argument list:

    print ( split /\./, $filename )[-1];   # wrong
print (( split /\./, $filename )[-1]); # unpleasant

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    As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

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      Thanks, that was basically (however inelegantly) what I was trying to accomplish. Printing was just for demonstration purposes.
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