Ben Crane wrote: > > Hi all, Hello,
> I'm trying to split apart a filepath...e.g: > c:\test\abc\what\somefile.txt > The length of the filepath will never be constant... $ perl -le' use File::Spec; my $path = q[c:\test\abc\what\somefile.txt]; my ( $vol, $dir, $file ) = File::Spec->splitpath( $path ); print qq[ "$vol" "$dir" "$file" ]; my @dirs = File::Spec->splitdir( $dir ); print map qq[ "$_" ], @dirs; ' "c:" "\test\abc\what\" "somefile.txt" "" "test" "abc" "what" "" John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>