Ron, Shlomi, I realized I haven’t thanked you.
Thanks, Regards, Satya P.S : I am not a fan of one liners but as a beginner of perl there are many others out there who want to see the power of perl to do that in one line, it is just a way to be a fan of the language and then things get improved automatically since you love it. -----Original Message----- From: Shlomi Fish [mailto:shlo...@shlomifish.org] Sent: 13 July 2012 17:00 To: Nemana, Satya Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: one liner for removing string from an element of string array Hi Satya, On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:38:20 +0000 "Nemana, Satya" <snem...@sonusnet.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have written a small program like this to just print file2 from the second > element of the array by removing the .template from the entry (the name file2 > can change and can be longer or shorter) > > use strict; > use Data::Dumper; > use warnings; > > my @templates = ( > "/a/b/c/d/e/f/file1.template", > "/a/b/c/d/e/f/file2.template" > ); > > my @tokens=split( /\//, $templates[1]); > print("\n".substr($tokens[$#tokens],0,-9)); > > However I want this to be more efficient and want to do this in a single line > as I have to do this several times. > How can I do that? > See File::Basename - http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Basename.html . In the future, you may wish to use regular expressions for similar tasks: http://perl-begin.org/topics/regular-expressions/ Regarding achieving stuff in one line, see: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=newline-prices and if you're so concerned about that, you can always write subroutines to encapsulate commonly done tasks. Regards, Shlomi Fish > TIA, > > Regards, > Satya > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Escape from GNU Autohell - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/ Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. — http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
