Re: [MacPerl] Easy regex?

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

And I wouldn't necessarily use either a regex *or* substr; one of the CPAN
modules like File::Spec might be more portable if that's what you like
(well, that's what _I_ like... :-))

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Iain Chalmers wrote:

And Lachlan had blurted:

> >	I want a directory path to the directory the script is in, but the
> >env. var. SCRIPT_NAME returns a path with the file name on the end so I
> >wonder if someone can help with an easy regex, (or maybe suggest a method
> >that'll return the directory)  to truncate a directory path by chopping off
> >the filename at the end, eg
> 
> At the risk of offending the regex gods <GRIN>, I wouldn't use a regex at all...
> 


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