Emulating Unix 'basename' 1

[columb]

I want to do the same as the Unix 'basename' command, i.e. split off the path from a file. I'm trying

 perl -e 'foreach ( "/path/to/file" ) { s!.+/!!; print "$_\n"; }

and getting

Modification of a read-only value attempted at -e line 1.

I've tried a number of variations but and re-read 'prelrequick' but I'm not having any success. What should I be doing?

Thanks

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Columb Healy

 

[feherke]

Hi

I do not understand what are you trying to do there, but taking "[tt]basename[/tt]" as keyword :

  DB<1> $path="/path/to/file";

  DB<2> ($name=$path)=~s,.*/,,;

  DB<3> print $name;
file

Feherke.

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[mikrom]

Look at File::Basename