Question

I need a regular expression to parse a text The directory is
/home/foo/bar/hello.txt.
I would like to get the hello.txt and get rid of the rest of the directory, so i would like to delete home/foo/bar/ and only get the hello.txt

Answer 1

update: should work for paths as well 🙂

my ($filename) = $dir =~ m!^.*/(.*)!;

or

my $filename = (split '/', $dir)[-1];