PERL Beginners - Extracting file name from full name

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Extracting file name from full name

andrewmchorney@cox.net

2007-09-27, 7:01 pm

Hello

I have a string that contains a full path and file name. What is the easiest way to extract the file name? For example the path is /dir1/dir2/dir3/file.txt.

Andrew

John W. Krahn

2007-09-27, 7:01 pm

andrewmchorney@cox.net wrote:
> Hello

Hello,

> I have a string that contains a full path and file name. What is
> the easiest way to extract the file name? For example the path is
> /dir1/dir2/dir3/file.txt.

$ perl -le'

use File::Basename;

my $full_path = q[/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.txt];

my $file_name = basename $full_path;

print $file_name;

'
file.txt

John
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