On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Melanie Rouette wrote: > Hi, > I have something like: /usr/local/home/mel/file.txt and I'd like to > strip it so that I can put the path in a variable, the file name in > another one and the extention in a another one as well. How do I do > that, can I do it all in a same expression. Something like, $path = > /usr/local/home/mel, $filename = file and finally $ext = txt. > > Thanks in advance. > Melanie
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