SPUG: regular expression difficulty, plus compiled perl
David Corcoran
davec at icthus.net
Tue Mar 28 01:03:32 CST 2000
>$test1 or $0... Try this:
>$test1 =~ s#.*\\##; # replace everything
> # before the last \
> # with nothing...
>
I think he wanted the path sans the file name:
($test1 = $0)=~ s#(.*)\\.*$#$1#;
which is a combination of the two:
>> ($test1 = $0)=~ m#.*\\#;
>> #$test1 =~ s/(.*\\)/$1/; # I tried this too, and
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