Hi Roy, --- Original Message From: Zysman, Roiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 01:14AM PDT
ZR> Is there a way to extract a filename out of a path string using just one ZR> RegEx and not using the split function ? ZR> For Example, I want to extract foo.txt from /my/long/path/foo.txt path ZR> string. I found this cool trick a while ago and it works nicely. my($directory, $filename) = $text =~ m/(.*\/)(.*)$/; print "D=$directory, F=$filename\n"; -MikeD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
