Rob:
On 4/25/07, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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) = $path =~ m|([^/]+)$|;
I tried it, but somehow doesnt work for me, printing $name returns me the entire string such as C:\temp\abc\abc.txt and not abc.txt. Am I missing something? 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
