Re: Re: Referencing string: Can't use string as a SCALAR ref

[P0w3rK!d]

Thank you :) I have it working now. I'm just curious if I can do it a better way.

-P0w3rK!d

[antirice]

There is a better way to do it. (Which happens to be Limbic~Region's first suggestion.) As an added bonus, it also makes the code more portable to other OS's (as long as you have the script setup a directory or something rather than hard-coding it.)



use File::Basename;

my $file = basename($filestring);
print $file,$/;

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