Cool.
Dex

Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote:

> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Dexter Casey wrote:
>
>      > Dude that doesn't work. You are substituing white space for the word you are 
>trying to
>      > match and store in $server.  Am I missing something.  That just returns the 
>count of
>      > matches.
>      >
>      > Rgds
>      > Dexter
>
> I tried it and it did work!
>
> C:\>perl -e "$line="\\\\Server\\Pathname";print 
>"$line\n";($server=$line)=~s/\\\w*$//; print "$server\n""
> \\Server\Pathname
> \\Server
>
> C:\>
>
> what it does is first assign $line to $server ($server=$line) and then
> replace in $server  one '\' (not two!) and a word (\w* means none or more
> alphanumeric characters) until the end of the line ($ is end of line) with
> nothing (//), I mean delete the '\whatever_is_here_until_end_of_line'.
>
> rgrds,
> m4c.

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