Xah Lee: > In Perl, spliting a full path into parts is done like this:
And then follows Perl-code that only works with an optional .html "extension", which is similar to the code in the File::Basename description. http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/lib/File/Basename.html It is best practice to derive and store the normalized (or absolute) path, because relative paths can get loose so will get loose. Consider this: $myPath = './example/basename.ext'; and this: $myPath = './example/filename.1.23.45-beta'; and this: $myPath = 'x:.\example\basename.ext'; (some platforms have a wd per device) -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
