Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am trying to separate the directory from the filename using the substring and it does not like it.

Code:

$Complete_name="C:\ABCD\Reports_Split\090308.1630"

I want $File_Name as 090308.1630

I tried using Substring function and it does not like slashes in the complete_name.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Sushma.

perldoc File::Basename

Hi,

Thanks for your response. File::Basename works for Unix. I want to do it windows.

Sushma.

File::Basename works for both platforms. read the docs carefully.

Yes, It did work. Thank you.

It works for many platforms but if you pass Windows paths to a perl script on a Unix or Linux box, File::Basename will not work unless you tell it to use the windows style paths, same is true for other operating systems. See the module documentation for details.

substr() has no problem with backslashes, you should have posted your code so someone could tell you what you were doing wrong. The problem with your example is that you have backslashes inside of a double-quoted string. In which case the backslash is a meta character and not a literal character. Use single-quotes for strings without variables or meta sequences.

$Complete_name= 'C:\ABCD\Reports_Split\090308.1630';