Nishi wrote:
What is the equivalent of basename? Ie if I dont want to use basename package to get the filename off a path, what reg expr can i use in perl? Would this work -- my $fileName=$path =~ /.*\/(.+)$/;
Why don't you try it?! It wouldn't work because $fileName would end up with either a true or a false value depending on whether the regex matched. To get the captured string put the regex in list context: my ($fileName) = $path =~ /.*\/(.+)$/; But it would still fail if there was no slash in the $path string. You may want to use the slightly simpler my ($name) = $path =~ m|([^/]+)$|; which just grabs all the characters at the end of the string that aren't slashes, and works whether or not there is a path as well as a file name in the string. Cheers, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
