Re: Extracting part of strings?

From: Jürgen Exner (jurgenex_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:57:39 GMT

Arndt Jonasson wrote:
> Karlo Lozovina <_karlo_@_mosor.net_> writes:
>> "Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> news:ivYvd.7200$E_6.6229@trnddc04:
>>
>>> Yep, there is. The perlish way of doing it would be to use the
>>> function basename() from the module File::Basename. Further
>>> information see 'perldoc File::Basename'.
>>
>> Wow, wish I knew that an hour ago :). Thanks a lot, this will make my
>> life lot easier :).
>
> For doing it with only Perl primitives, look up 'map' and regular
> expressions.

Would be interesting to see how you parse file paths in a portable way using
only REs....

jue

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