If you're only uploading jpgs then you could also write this as my ($name) = $path =~ /\w+\.jpg$/i;
since a regexp match returns an array, you're actually creating an array with a single element ($name) and mapping it to the return from your match $path =~ /etc/i; you're match says "one or more word characters" [A-z0-9_] followed by ".jpg" at the end of the string ($) and match case insensitively (using the /i modifier) In retrospect, Teddy's solution is probably cleaner but hopefully this will be useful anyway... this technique is best suited for grabbing various elements out of a match ie. to grab the filename and extension you'd use: my ($name, $ext) = $path =~ /(\w+)\.(\w+)$/i; good luck. -p -----Original Message----- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 10:17 AM To: james lundeen; beginners-cgi Subject: Re: File upload - probably simple.. Use regular expressions to get only the file name from the path. You should use something like this: $path =~ s/^.*[\\\/]//; Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "james lundeen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "beginners-cgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 12:56 AM Subject: File upload - probably simple.. hey, do you have a solution to this? I need to upload a file, but i just want the file name, not the entire path. Currently, it saves the actual file on the server as: G:\ISIR\ISIR2002gallery\images\isir1.jpg as the FILENAME!!! i just want it to save as "isir1.jpg" or whatever the filename is for the file that the user is uploading... windows machine path for the file: G:\ISIR\ISIR2002gallery\images\isir1.jpg should end up as the following on the linux server: /home/website1/html/images/isir1.jpg Anyone with info on this, I'd really appreciate feedback. Thanks!!! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
