On Thu, 4 May 2000, Troy Sniff wrote:
> I'm trying to grab the original name of the file using CGI.pm to upload.
>
> Here is what I am doing:
>
> my @nfn = split (/\\/, $file);
> $NewFileName = pop @nfn;
>
> where $file is the full path to the file.
>
> This process will only be done using a graphical browser. My question is,
> will the file coming in through a browser ever use / instead of \?
>
> If so, my split above will not work in all scenarios.
>
> on my Windows machine, the filename comes in as:
>
> d:\directory\myfile.jpg
>
> Is there a chance that I will ever see it come in as:
>
> d:/directory/myfile.jpg or /usr/home/myfile.jpg
>
> or something different from all of those?
>
> Since I am not familiar with how Mac browsers work or even how a Unix
> graphical browser would work, I don't know if I will see these.
>
> Who knows, someone out there might have a better way of doing this. If so,
> I'd like to check it out.
>
To cover all the bases ypu might want to consider:
my @info=split/[\\/:]/, $file);
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