On Jul 19, 2006, at 13:59, Ankam, Ramesh Babu wrote:
Can any one please tell me what this pattern means " s|.*/|| ".
Assuming there are no newlines in the string, that s/// means remove everything up to, and including, the last slash. It's a typical regexp for getting the basename of a filename. If that's the usage please delegate to File::Basename instead.
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