RegEx question

Hazzie

Can someone help me with a RegEx puzzler.

I have a string (directory path) which could be in any of the following formats

2004\contact_us\contact_us_title
contact_us\contact_us_title
contact_us_title

The amount of directorys is not fixed.

I want to find the ending string
So in
2004\contact_us\contact_us_title i want contact_us_title
contact_us\contact_us_title i want contact_us_title
contact_us_title i want contact_us_title

I have tried all sorts but for example
$DirPath =~ /\\(.*)$/;
which gives me 2004\contact_us\cu_find_branch_results_title
$DirPath =~ /\\?(.*)$/;
which gives me 2004\contact_us\contact_us_title
$DirPath =~ /\\(.*?)$/;
which gives me contact_us\contact_us_title
$DirPath =~ /\\(.*)?$/;
which gives me contact_us\contact_us_title

can anyone give me some pointers as where to go next.

Hazzie
TS 5.5.2 on NT.

Adam Stoller

Normally I recommend translating all '\' to '/' as it makes writing regex's much simpler because yo don't have to deal with escaping escape characters.

In this case - it would be something like:$DirPath =~ tr|\\|/|;
(my $lastElem = $DirPath) =~ s|^.*/||;However, notwithstanding the escape problem - you could probably do (my $lastElem = $DirPath) =~ s|^.*\\||;

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com