FlashGuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I have the following line in my Perl script
$test=$ARGV[0] which dumps the following results
=D:\temp\test\filename
I need to extract only the filename to the right of the last \ and put that into
a variable.
There could only be one \ in
I took a look on www.perldoc.com and checked out split. I can't figure out how to do
it from the examples?
Help?
On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 11:48:22 -0400, FlashGuy wrote:
You mean split?
On 01 Aug 2002 11:41:51 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote:
FlashGuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I took a look on www.perldoc.com and checked out split. I can't figure out how to
do it from the examples?
Help?
Try out the following piece of code :
use File::Spec;
use strict;
my $test = C:\\temp\\test\\filename;
my ($volume,$directories,$file) =
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No, 'split' is a built-in function, which you could also use. The
reason I recommend File::Spec is that it is portable and standard.
Generally, if a cpan module exists which covers your task, I'd use
it. The 'split' method would be:
my $file = (split /\\/, $test)[-1];
Which
I suggest looking into the File::Basename module, which is bundled with perl.
Most current documentation can be found at:
http://search.cpan.org/doc/JHI/perl-5.8.0/lib/File/Basename.pm
I suppose you could also use a regex...something like this perhaps?
/.*(\\\w+)$/
cheers,
nathanael
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