Sorry, lack of sleep.. but isn't File::Basename usally installed in the
standard Perl install?
Denis
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > basename is more convenient i think. What do you say?
> >
> Only if you can load the module on the system. running into issues here at
> work where I can load modules (security llama's)
>
> Denis
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> >
> > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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> > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > What is the function of cutting a string from a point until the last
> > > character?
> > > >
> > > > For example
> > > > $string="C:/progra~1/directory1/directory2/file.txt";
> > > >
> > > > i want to find the last backslash (/) of the string and keep the sequence
> > > > following it (file.txt)
> > > >
> > > > Is it simple?
> > > >
> > > > I tried with the split function but it returns a list.
> > > >
> > > > I just want a scalar!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > why not try this?
> > >
> > > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > > my @test='';
> > > my $test1='';
> > > my $string = "C:/test/me";
> > > @test = split('/',$string);
> > > print "@test\n";
> > > print "$test[$#test]\n";
> > >
> > > HTH.. Denis
> > >
> > >
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