On Nov 17, Andrea Holstein said: >Ken Clark wrote: >> >> I want to capture the title of the current song I have running on my box >> through mpg123 and redirect it to a file. In this process, I don't want >> the /long/path/to/song but just the song.mp3. Is it possible to capture >> the song title this way? >> >Hi, another way is: > >my ($title) = $path =~ m{ ( [^/]+ ) $ }x;
You could avoid regexes entirely (look who's saying it!): my $title = substr $path, rindex($path, '/') + 1; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]