Re: Re: split to get the dir name

[dvergin]

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

But what if the filename contains a space?

[dragonchild]

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*

[Plankton]

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

[dragonchild]

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 ...