On Nov 17, Andrea Holstein said:
>Ken Clark wrote:
>>
>> I want to capture the title of the current song I have running on my box
>> through mpg123 and redirect it to a file. In this process, I don't want
>> the /long/path/to/song but just the song.mp3. Is it possible to capture
>> the song title this way?
>>
>Hi, another way is:
>
>my ($title) = $path =~ m{ ( [^/]+ ) $ }x;
You could avoid regexes entirely (look who's saying it!):
my $title = substr $path, rindex($path, '/') + 1;
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