Bruno Veldeman wrote:
>
> I have a string with this format "/blabla/dir/nextdir/name.txt"
> I want only 'name.txt' in one string and the rest in another string.
in this case, i would use split:
$location = "/blabla/dir/nextdir/name.txt";
@dirs = split("\/", $location);
foreach (@dirs) { print "$_\n"; }
will yield:
blabla
dir
nextdir
name.txt
and you can access what you want directly by using:
print $dirs[4];
or, if you don't know how many directories will be in there:
print $dirs[$#dirs];
> Or better, how do I learn to use regex?
i'd recommend Jeffrey Friedl's book, 'Mastering Regular Expressions',
which is available from O'Reilly & Associates.
