Extracting file name from full name

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

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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