Help in regex

[TheGenius22]

Hi All,

Im having a problem with regex.

I am trying split the filename from the path name.

EX:

c:\blablabl\somedr\thefile.txt

I want the file name "thefile.txt" to be extracted.
I already had done this a while ago but I can't find the file. I used the "m/"pattern matching. Please help or point in the right direction.

Thanks

 

[arcnon]

$x = 'c:\blablabl\somedr\thefile.txt';

@a = split(/\\/, $x);
$name = pop(@a);

print $name;

 

[TheGenius22]

Thanks arcnon but I was look for a regex.

 

[TheGenius22]

Thanks arcnon but I was looking for a regex.

 

[mikevh]

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $path = 'c:\blablabl\somedr\thefile.txt';
my $filename = $1 if $path =~ /\\([^\\]+)$/;
# or: my ($filename) = $path =~ /\\([^\\]+)$/;
print "$filename\n";

 

[ishnid]

Although a solution such as that may work ok for your purposes, it's not portable and you'd have to revise your code if you ever moved it to another OS. You'd be better off using the standard File::Basename module for this - it may save headaches in the future.