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in reply to Re: split to get the dir name
in thread split to get the dir name

Quothe dragonchild:
    my $filename = (split ' ', $_)[-1];

But what if the filename contains a space?

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Re3: split to get the dir name
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Sep 29, 2003 at 19:02 UTC
    Then split will break. You'd have to go with substr (which would be platform-dependent) or change the ls pipe from 'ls -l' to 'ls -1'. *shrugs*

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      Just curious, how is substr platform-dependent? And how is ls not platfrom-dependent?

      Nonsense. You never liked me anyway. You wouldn’t even come to my birthday party!
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        The output of 'ls -l' is dependent on which *nix you're using. Hence, the index into substr will change depending on the *nix you run on. 'ls -l' is actually not as platform-dependent as you think. It runs on Win2003Pro ...

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        Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.

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