For your purpose,using Perl's built-in module File::Basename is a good way.
use File::Basename; my $filename = basename($topdir); my $dirname = dirname($topdir); Good luck! 2007/4/19, Nishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi: I am using the following reqular expression to extract the last part ie $lang of the following string $topdir = "common/default/l_cs"; my $lang=$topdir =~ /.*\/(.+)$/; But it doesnt seem to work, what am i missing here? Thanks!
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