On 2 Aug 2006 at 3:24, BenBart wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone please tell me how to get the BASENAME and BASEDIR of a file > ... i.e. for example, if I have C:\Windows\Temp\Dir1\MyFile.TXT, I want > to be able to get the BASENAME which is MyFile and the BASEDIR which is > C:\Windows\Temp\Dir1 and assign them to variables ...
perldoc -m File::Basename use File::Basename; $basename = basename($fullname); $dirname = dirname($fullname); print "File=$basename, Directory path=$dirname\n"; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>