On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the function of cutting a string from a point until the last character? > > For example > $string="C:/progra~1/directory1/directory2/file.txt"; > > i want to find the last backslash (/) of the string and keep the sequence > following it (file.txt) > > Is it simple? > > I tried with the split function but it returns a list. > > I just want a scalar! > > > >
why not try this? #!/usr/bin/perl my @test=''; my $test1=''; my $string = "C:/test/me"; @test = split('/',$string); print "@test\n"; print "$test[$#test]\n"; HTH.. Denis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]