SPUG: spug: What is the idiomatic way to extract first/last item after split?

[Colin Meyer]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:14:39PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
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> If working with file names, I'm more likely to use File::Basename and/or
> the tools in File::Path to do something that's not OS dependent.

Good suggestion.

-Colin.