Re: [MacPerl] how to get just the file name from full path

[Scott R. Godin]

on 07/09/2001 03:16 PM, Morbus Iff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> $f =~ m/:(.*)$/ ? print "$1\n" : print "$f\n";
> 
> This will fail if you're more than one directory deep, ie, it'll work fine
> on "HD:filename.xml", but will fail on "HD:Directory:filename.xml". In the
> first case, it will properly return "filename.xml", in the second case, it
> will return "Directory:filename.xml".
> 
> This small modification will fix that:
> 
> $f =~ m/:([^:]$.*)$/ ? print "$1\n" : print "$f\n";
> 
> 

I was trying to recall what I'd done earlier to do something similar.. guess
I mis-remembered :)

thanks for the heads-up :)

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