SPUG: regular expression difficulty, plus compiled perl

[Todd Wells]

I'm using ActiveState Perl on NT4 and trying to set a variable to be equal
to the directory name that the script was ran in.

So, I look at $0 which contains the name of the script I ran... in this case
"D:\PERL\COUNTP~1.PL"

But when I try to strip the filename off the end, I can't seem to do it.

print "First: $0\n";
($test1 = $0)=~ m#.*\\#;
#$test1 =~ s/(.*\\)/$1/;	# I tried this too, and it didn't work
either.
print "Second: $test1\n";

The output:
First: D:\PERL\COUNTP~1.PL
Second: D:\PERL\COUNTP~1.PL

What's going on here?  Is the .* just being _really_ greedy?  I'm expecting
$test1 to be "D:\PERL\"  
I know this is silly, but I can't figure out the problem here.  

BTW, someone at the last SPUG meeting mentioned they were playing around
with compiled Perl using ActiveState.  I can't seem to find any specifics on
how to do this.  Perlfaq3 mentions it, but gives no specifics on how to
actually do it, nor can I find any at Malcolm Beattie's site.

- Todd

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