Hope this helps ...
>perl -e '$str="/blabla/dir/nextdir/name.txt";
($path,$filenm)=$str=~m/(^.+)\/(\w+\.\w+$)/;
print "path=<$path>,file name=<$filenm>\n";'
path=</blabla/dir/nextdir>,file name=<name.txt>
John W Moon
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Veldeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: June 09, 2001 16:08
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Regex question
Hi,
I can't seem to get the regex right for this:
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.
It would be nice explaining the regex in plain english.
Or better, how do I learn to use regex?
For now it's like chineese to me.
(And I don't know chineese ;-) )
Thanks.
