Re: [MacPerl] getting filenames

[bwilkinson@pindar.co.uk (Bob Wilkinson)]

>is it possible to get the "regular" filenames from @ARGV instead of the
>full pathnames which include every folder and volume down to the hard
>drive, separated by colons? for example, if i drop files called "file 1",
>"file 2", and "file 3" onto a droplet, i want to somehow get @somelist =
>("file 1", "file 2", "file 3"). if not, i guess i'll have to massage an
>@ARGV copy with substitution?
>
>thanks.

Hello,
      Add the line,

use File::Basename;

to the top (or thereabouts) of your script, then you can get the basename by

my($filename) = basename($full_filename);


Bob

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