On 7/18/2004 4:14 AM, Zysman, Roiy wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a way to extract a filename out of a path string using just one RegEx and not using the split function ?
For Example, I want to extract foo.txt from /my/long/path/foo.txt path string.
use File::Basename; -or- use File::Spec;
Both are core modules. Both are the safest way to do what you want.
But you'll often see it done this way:
my $path = '/my/long/path/foo.txt';
(my $file = $path) =~ s/^.*\///; -or- (my $file) = $path =~ /([^\/]+)$/;
or similar. But you should really use
use File::Basename; my $file = basename( $path ); -or- my $file = (File::Spec->splitpath( $path ))[2];
Randy.
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