Question

I have a directory path:

my $temp = "/a/b/c/d";
my $upDirectory = dirname( $temp );

This returns “/a/b/c”.
But I need just “c”. I have to compare it with a string to determine if it is the right directory.

Is there a way other than split on “/”? I do not want to use this. The Perl code has to be used on multiple platforms.
Can splitdir help?

Answer 1

There are, of course, many ways to do it but if your main concern is portability to other platforms then File::Spec is probably a reasonable bet. Look for splitpath and splitdir.