Re: basename question from "learning perl"

Thank you all! I figured it out! Jim 2010/1/18 Alexander Koenig : > Hi Jim, > > Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: >> my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; >> (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! >> >> after substitution $basename is supposed to be >> perl >> >> but why it is not /local/bin

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

Thank you all! I figured it out! JIm 2010/1/18 Alexander Koenig : > Hi Jim, > > Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: >> my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; >> (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! >> >> after substitution $basename is supposed to be >> perl >> >> but why it is not /local/bi

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

Hi Jim, Jim Green wrote on 01/17/2010 05:25 PM: > my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; > (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! > > after substitution $basename is supposed to be > perl > > but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string? Yes it will match the longe

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

Jim Green wrote: > my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; > (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! > #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use File::Basename; my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; my $basename = basename( $name ); print "$basename\n"; -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars wo

Re: basename question from "learning perl"

Hi Jim, >>but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string? . means any character * means preceding character any number of times (zero or more), so .* means any character (but not a new line) any number of times Now .*/ means any number of characters but should e

basename question from "learning perl"

my $name = "/usr/local/bin/perl"; (my $basename = $name) =~ s#.*/##; # Oops! after substitution $basename is supposed to be perl but why it is not /local/bin/perl? will .*/ matches longest possible string? Thank you list! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional