RegEx Hell

[Mark Galbreath]

Close enough to perl, I hope...   I'm trying to string the filename from the path:      /dir/subdir/file.ext => file.ext   with     /\w+\.\w+$/   and am getting the entire path returned.  I am falling asleep reading the perldoc regex "intro," "tutorial," full doc, and even Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions."  This can't be this difficult nor unusual!  Why can't I find an example somewhere or get this to work?  Better yet, somebody please profer a solution?  :-)   mark