Mark Galbreath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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+$/
>
> and am getting the entire path returned. I am falling asleep reading the
> perldoc regex "intro," "tutorial," full doc, and even Jeffrey Friedl's
> "Mastering Regular Expressions." This can't be this difficult nor unusual!
> Why can't I find an example somewhere or get this to work? Better yet,
> somebody please profer a solution? :-)
Well, I'd suggest using File::Basename for this, since that's nice
and portable and deals with a lot of edge cases with funny filenames, it's
part of the standard perl distribution, etc.
But if I understand what you're trying to do, I think it's
m{^(?:.*/)?([^/]+)$};
After that, the filename itself should be in $1.
- Tyler
