Hi all,
Here is a code snippet, and yes I am going to use
File::Basename to strip the file path/filename once
I've stripped the entire path from a string.
The string $_ is a line in a text file. I want to use
File::Basename to pull apart the file path and
filename, but first I need to extract the string from
the entire string...
$_="Open Table \"Q:\\OSMAPS\\mapinfo\\gazos_rd\" As
Gazos_Rd Interactive ReadOnly";
($path) = /(".*")/i;
print "$path\n";
Now my problem is: when I run this code (yep, I know
strict isn't on) I get "Q:\OSMAPS\mapinfo\gazos_rd",
but I just want what's between the quotation
marks...how do I match a value in a string but exclude
the Quotation marks. The quotation marks delineate the
file path so they're very useful, but I can't have
them in my $path when it gets put into File::Basename.
Any ideas? If I match on \w or \w+ I get the Open
Table part (not wanted). The file paths will vary
greatly so sometimes they'll be a large complex file
path and otherwise (if in the same folder as the txt
file, it'll just be "gazos_rd".
Ben
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