Hi Jim, >>but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string?
. means any character * means preceding character any number of times (zero or more), so .* means any character (but not a new line) any number of times Now .*/ means any number of characters but should end with / Which in this case would match till the last / i.e string - /usr/local/bin/ And finally you are replacing the above string with nothing so remaining string i.e 'perl' is getting stored in $basename Cheers, Parag On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jim Green <student.northwest...@gmail.com>wrote: > my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; > (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! > > after substitution $basename is supposed to be > perl > > but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible > string? > > Thank you list! > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
