Re: [MacPerl] Easy regex?

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 05:16 -0800 12/18/98, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 08:36:53AM -0400, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> }
> } 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... :-))
>
> In general you'd use File::Basename, but in this case, the regex is
> probably the way to go.  The reason is that File::Basename works on
> paths as used in the native file system, which URL's aren't except
> under Unix (the protestations in the RFC's are not convincing).

In theory, File::PathConvert is supposed to understand URLs...

In practice I haven't made this work under MacPerl yet (but I've only spent
5 minutes trying...)

In the expectation that someone else on this list will get it to work in
another 5 minutes...

ftp://ftp.ou.edu/mirrors/CPAN//modules/by-module/File/

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