regex examples

Could someone draw out a quick example of a regex that strips a directory from in front of a file...

(i.e.)

\templatedata\data\docs\file.txt

leaving me with

docs/file.txt

Any help would be great!

Thanks

Lucas Cochrane
lcochrane@dc.com

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akshathp

If the folder will always be templatedata\data then try something like this

Store the path in a variable lets say $myVar
then
$myVar =~ s/^\\templatedata\\data//;

This would replace the templatedata\data with null. Leaving you with rest of the info in your variable.

Is this what you were looking for?

Akshat Pramod Sharma
Interwoven Inc.

Ottawa_IWOV

So to clarify...

$file = path tp dcr (\templatedata\data\dcr)
$file = $myVar
$file = dcr

Lucas Cochrane
lcochrane@dc.com

akshathp

All you need to do is instead on "myVar" use your variable which has this path stored. As per your example I am assuming it to be "file" variable.
Is that right?
If so, then just use the code I wrote in the previous post and replace "myVar" with "file".

Hope this helps!

Akshat Pramod Sharma
Interwoven Inc.

Ottawa_IWOV

Iam still confused at to how to use it in the code. I either get everything or nothing

Lucas Cochrane
lcochrane@dc.com

dennispluken

Assuming:

my $path = "iwmnt/main/default/branchname/WORKAREA/yourname/dir_1/dir_2/file_1.html";

This regex will return the directory and the file name:
my ($directory,$filename) = $path =~ m!(.*/)([^/]*)$!;

For NT replace all instances of / with \\.