RE: Getting file name from a path

[Jerry Kassebaum]

Often I need to extract the file name from a path. Typically I do
something like following. Any better ways I could do this?

#path test
$current_file = "c:/somedir/test.ps";
@split_path = split("/",$current_file);
$current_file = @split_path[-1];
print $current_file;


However, I'm pretty sure I could extract the file name using a regular
expression. How might I do this? Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks




Let greediness work for you:

$path="c:/somedir/test.ps";
$path=~/.*\/(.+)/;
$file=$1;
print "$file";

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